Dear Sir /Madam, I am pleased to send you the list of PSAN's October's Updates. All references listed furtherdown can be found directly on PSAN website at http://www.psan.org/ I take the opportunity to remind you that he access to the site is free of charge as well as the subscription to the monthly updates' mailing, and that you are welcome to advertise your own publications. Please do not hesitate to get in contact with me if you wish to do so. Thank you for your interest in PSAN. Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Post-Soviet Armies Newsletter http://www.psan.org/ [log in to unmask] Monday, 2 October 2000 Through a Distorted Lens: Chechnya and the Western Media, by A. Lieven SPECIAL / CHECHNYA Monday, 9 October 2000 True Numbers, No Reform, by P. Felgenhauer BUILDING NATIONAL ARMIES / RUSSIAN FEDERATION Uzbekistan Dismisses Defense Minister BUILDING NATIONAL ARMIES / CENTRAL ASIA / UZBEKISTAN Sergei Ivanov, Head of Security Council PERSONALITIES / IVANOV De Gaulles Always Come Up With Something (Political party founded specifically for ex-servicemen) NEW ROLES FOR THE MILITARY / ARMY & POLITICS / RF Civil-Military Relations Bibliography / Russia & the Soviet Union CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS / DEMOCRATIC CONTROL / BIBLIOGRAPHY MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2000 Radical Military Reform In Uzbekistan BUILDING NATIONAL ARMIES / CENTRAL ASIA / UZBEKISTAN The tax police to gain prestige, power POWER MINISTRIES / RUSSIAN FEDERATION / TAX POLICE Azerbaijan, Ukraine Sign Defense Cooperation Agreement MILITARY COOPERATION / WITHIN THE CIS Hot Air Brings Cold Cash, by P. Felgenhauer MILITARY COOPERATION / INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Monday, 23 October 2000 Pluses And Minuses Of Military Reform In Uzbekistan BUILDING NATIONAL ARMIES / CENTRAL ASIA Trend could hatch dozens of Pinochets NEW ROLES FOR THE MILITARY / ARMY AND POLITICS MONDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2000 FIDH, Tchétchénie : crimes contre l'humanité. SPECIAL / CHECHNYA Russia's Armed Forces. Problems of Reform and Ressettlement BUILDING NATIONAL ARMIES / RUSSIAN FEDERATION Zhenshshiny na voennoj sluzhbe SOCIAL ASPECTS / WOMEN / RUSSIAN FEDERATION Democratizing Communist Militaries.The Cases of the Czech and Russian Armed Forces PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS Monday, 30 October 2000 FIDH, Tchétchénie : crimes contre l'humanité. SPECIAL CHECHNYA Russia's Armed Forces. Problems of Reform and Ressettlement BUILDING NATIONAL ARMIES / RUSSIAN FEDERATION Zhenshshiny na voennoj sluzhbe SOCIAL ASPECTS / WOMEN / RUSSIAN FEDERATION Democratizing Communist Militaries. The Cases of the Czech and Russian Armed Forces, by Marybeth P.Ulrich PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS ---------------------------------------- Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Post-Soviet Armies Newsletter http://www.psan.org/ [log in to unmask]