Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (October 1, 1997)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A country waiting to happen.			295
A darker time for women and minorities.			380
A long road ahead.			1587
A sea of trouble.			396
A work in progress.			503
Anthropology meets economics.			151
Back to the USSR.			251
Black gold.			128
Cast adrift.			189
Caucasian tangle.			421
Constitutional clashes.			165
Cultivating debt.			109
Environmental arms.			94
Land without law: while democracy is on the rise in Russia, so are poverty and crime.			729
Life from inside.			100
Power to the president.			104
Read it! Read it!			87
Revenue shortfall.			87
Shoot-out at the Radisson Slavyanskaya.			155
Split personality.			1496
Superpower status.			244
The Iron Curtain falls.			259
The luxury of food.			115
The malnourished military: Russia's military is short of everything - food, finance, and fire-power.			1121
The turmoil of change.			1307
The vodka connection.			186
The wild East.			1206
Transition turmoil.			1268
Unlucky landlord equals happy tenant.			77
Waiting in the wings.			578
Will the centre hold?			1280