Johnson's Russia List 19 May 1997 djohnson@cdi.org [Note from David Johnson: 1. Jerry Hough (Duke/Brookings) comments on tenure and Russian studies today in the US. 2. Gary Kern: Open the Archives. 3. InterPress Service: Chaotic Chechnya Still Deadly Dangerous For ECHO Aid Teams. 4. St. Petersburg Times: Pavel Felgenhauer, CFE Loosing Force for Russia. 5. St. Petersburg Times: Gilbert Doctorow and Larisa Doctorow, Moscow's Bolshoi at a Low Point, But Is Still the Bolshoi. 6. The Independent (UK): Phil Reeves, What makes Russia see red? 7. Asia Times editorial: End the 'China menace.' (DJ: Please note the discussion of American domestic politics and the role of old and new external "threats.") 8. AP: Mongolian Voters Weigh Capitalism. (DJ: Someday we will return to the subject of how it was that the romance of the "free-market" replaced the balanced idea of the mixed economy, and the Reaganesque spell of "reform" monopolized public policy, at least for "them." A new book by Robert Kuttner may shed some light: "Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets."] [848 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=3328222&hilit=CIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&3309770 Score: 84 Subject: eeurope-changes digest (97/05/18 9829)