The investment party rages on in Russia / Robert C. Rickards -- Putin's new strategic policy tools : Gazprom and Rosneft / Robert C. Rickards -- Russia's cutoff of natural gas to Ukraine : context and implications / Jim Nichol, Steven Woehrel and Bernard A. Gelb -- Ukraine's political crisis and U.S. policy issues / Steven Woehrel -- Bringing peace to Chechnya? Assessments and implications / Jim Nichol -- Approaching the endgame : Polish public opinion and the changing Euro-debate in the run up to the 2003 EU Accession Referendum / Aleks Szczerbiak -- The new millenium : APEC and emerging China / M. Ulric Killion -- Social(ist) capital : does it pay? the institutional impact on conditions and consequences of access to social capital : the case of the former GDR / Beate Völker -- An elusive friendship : Nigerian-Soviet/Russian relations, 1960-2000 / Maxim Matusevich -- Coup in Kyrgyzstan : developments and implications / Jim Nichol -- Serbia and Montenegro : current situation and U.S. policy / Steven Woehrel -- Democracy in Russia : trends and implications for U.S. interests / Jim Nichol