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Chemical WMD 1 ECOLOGY/ SECURITY: Buried chemical weapons
Crime 2 THE CRIMINAL ECONOMY: How big is the criminal economy in Russia?
Crime 3 THE CRIMINAL ECONOMY: Protection money: extortion or "shadow taxes"?
Military 4 SOCIETY: The social status of military officers
EU 5 RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Russia--EU: the institutional dimension
Georgia, Uganda, Tajikistan 6

RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Rebuilding failed states: Georgia, Uganda, Tajikistan
Islam 7 RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Islam in the CIS
Burkhanism 8 ETHNIC MINORITIES: Altai: What was and is Burkhanism?
Philiosophy 9 HISTORY: Losev: philosopher of myth

FROM THE EDITOR

As promised, I have managed to produce a second issue of the RAS this month. Its themes include chemical weapons, the criminal economy, the social status of military officers, Russia's relations with the European Union, the problem of rebuilding failed states -- and a few rather more arcane topics.

I am planning a special issue, possibly next month, about science and scientists in post-Soviet Russia. I invite readers, and especially colleagues in Russia with a direct knowledge of the subject, to send me suggestions and contributions (in Russian, English or French).

Stephen D. Shenfield

FOLLOW-UP

The last issue of RAS (No. 12 item 4) contained a review of Vyacheslav Likhachev's book "Nazism in Russia" that focused especially on its treatment of the problem of the relationship between fascist movements and the state. Alexander Verkhovsky draws attention to the fact that this problem is the subject of his recent book "Gosudarstvo protiv radikal'nogo natsionalizma: Chto delat' i chego ne delat'?" [The State Against Radical Nationalism: What To Do and What Not To Do?]. The book was published by Panorama in August 2002, and the whole text is available on the Panorama website <http://www.panorama.ru/works/patr/govpol/book2/index.html>

THE CRIMINAL ECONOMY

NOTE

It so happens that today's issue of the Russian Regional Report (Vol. 7, No. 29, 25 November 2002) also contains a considerable amount of material on transnational crime, police corruption, and other matters related to the criminal economy.

The Russian Regional Report is now a biweekly publication jointly produced by the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (http://www.isn.ethz.ch) and the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at American University, Washington, DC (http://www.American.edu/traccc)