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1. Reuters: U.S. nearing ABM Treaty withdrawal.
2. Reuters: Moscow opposes NATO expansion despite better
ties.
3. San Francisco Chronicle: Bill Wallace, Terrorists shop
in Russia for nuclear 'dirty bombs'
4. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review.
5. Wall Street Journal: S. Frederick Starr, Russia’s
Ominous Afghan Gambit.
6. Peter Lavelle: Untimely Thoughts - How much of Putin is
a good thing for Russia? (re Constitution Day and presidential terms)
7. Izvestia: PRIMAKOV TO HEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
INDUSTRY.
8. Novaya gazeta: THE FOX IS BEST GUARDIAN OF THE HENHOUSE.
(re securities market)
9. RFE/RL RUSSIAN POLITICAL WEEKLY: Laura Belin, WILL TV-6
GO OUT WITH A BANG OR A WHIMPER?
10. Izvestia: RUSSIANS DO NOT KNOW THEIR CONSTITUTION.
(poll)
11. Moscow Times editorial: Constitution's Strength Is in
Immutability.
12. Moscow Times: Oksana Yablokova, Constitution Turns 8,
Public Still Ambivalent.
13. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Lidiya Andrusenko, A PERSONALIZED
CONSTITUTION. The Constitution may be amended in eight years. Time to change the
Constitution - to suit a new president.
14. Time Europe: Yuri Zarakhovich, Russians Happy to
Follow the Leader. Putin’s foreign and domestic policies are worlds apart.