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 SUBJ SUBJ:     TAKE 1 OF 2--Russian press review for 31 Aug
 SOUR SOURCE:   Caversham BBC Monitoring in English 0000 GMT 30 Aug 01
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 [FBIS Transcribed Text]     Russian press review for Friday 31
 August 2001
 The NATO mission in Macedonia will take longer than expected,
 one paper says. Another says the Afghan refugees off Australia may
 undermine the law of the sea, while in Afghanistan itself the
 Taleban are engaged in a war of nerves. The anti-racism conference
 in Durban may spark off anti-Semitism in Russia, according to one
 *paper. A tabloid plots an elaborate crop circle hoax, while
 researchers discover the premature ageing effect of driving a
 lorry.
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 Pessimism on NATO operation
 The influential daily IZVESTIYA says NATO has finally admitted
 what was "obvious to many observers", that it will take more than
 30 days to disarm ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia.
 Furthermore,  IZVESTIYA says,  "the initial results of NATO's
 Essential Harvest are not too optimistic". The paper says most of
 the Albanians are handing in obsolete weapons and "the border with
 Kosovo, from which the Albanian units were supplied with arms and
 probably will go on being so in the future,  remains as
 'transparent' now as it was before".  IZVESTIYA says NATO troops are
 fired on if they attempt to interfere with this traffic.
 IZVESTIYA quotes Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski as
 saying the NATO mission will fail. The paper says the Macedonian
 government has a fall-back plan to restore control of all
 rebel-held districts as soon as the NATO operation is finished.
 Refugees undermine sea law
 The daily NOVYYE IZVESTIYA is concerned about the fate of the
 Afghan refugees on the Norwegian container ship Tampa off
 Australia.  "The West is more and more reluctant every year to take
 refugees," the paper says, "and Australia has until now had the
 reputation of being the last hospitable country."
 But Australia's doors too have been "gradually closing", the
 paper says, predicting that Norway will eventually have to take the
 refugees. NOVYYE IZVESTIYA says Australia is "feverishly drafting"
 tougher laws against illegal immigration as the Tampa lies
 offshore.
 The implications for the law of the sea are even more dangerous,
 according to the paper. What the Afghans did in using threats and
 virtually seizing the ship "will be cursed by the hundreds who will
 perish at sea".  In future cases captains may ignore SOS messages
 and will not pick up refugees if there is no prospect of their
 being accepted at the nearest port.
 "Those wrecked at sea will see the ships sailing past but none
 of them will come to help them," the paper predicts.
 Taleban's war of nerves
 The weekly OBSHCHAYA GAZETA reports that the Taleban authorities
 in Afghanistan intend to proceed with the trial of foreign aid
 workers for missionary activities. The paper says the Taleban "risk
 losing all international humanitarian aid altogether". Their
 behaviour,  says OBSHCHAYA GAZETA,  is like that of "a passenger who
 decides to walk to spite the conductor" and recalls that the regime
 has been in conflict with the UN several times since it blew up the
 Buddha statues.
 The Taleban have embarked on "a war of nerves that they are
 bound to win",  the weekly says.  "If the world community steps up
 its pressure on the Taleban the latter will simply carry out their
 threat to reject humanitarian aid altogether", the paper says.
 The Taleban will now do exactly what they like, the paper says,
 predicting that reprisals will be stepped up against the Hazara, an
 ethnic and religious minority the Taleban regard as "unreliable".
 The residents of whole provinces could be moved into the desert to
 starve to death, OBSHCHAYA GAZETA predicts.
 Anti-Semite theatre in Durban
 The independent daily VREMYA NOVOSTEY reports that a delegation
 of rights activists from Russia is to attend the UN conference on
 racism in Durban. The paper says the delegation intends to table a
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 resolution  against what it calls "disguised forms of racism" in
 Russia. This is said to include using illegal migration as an
 excuse to discriminate on racial and ethnic grounds.
 VREMYA NOVOSTEY also predicts that Russia "will have to listen
 to accusations of ethnic discrimination" over its conduct in
 Chechnya at the South African forum.
 At the same time, the paper says, the Russian delegation is
 concerned about the agenda of the conference. A call by some
 delegates to pay compensation to the descendants of slaves in the
 USA is seen as "not constructive" by the Russians.
 The Russian delegates also "categorically disagree" with a draft
 resolution equating Zionism with racism and intend to support the
 USA and Israel on this issue. One delegate told the paper the
 resolution would have "direct and very negative consequences in
 Russia in the form of an increase in anti-Semitism".
 The head of the Israeli delegation, which cancelled its
 attendance at the conference at the last minute, told the paper it
 was likely to be "a theatre of the absurd". VREMYA NOVOSTEY says
 the Zionism resolution has also been criticized by the Russian
 Foreign Ministry as "discriminatory and focusing attention only on
 what is of interest to Arab politicians".
 I made this
 The official ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA reports that a children's club
 in Moscow has broadcast a radio message into outer space. The
 message, beamed to a specific star, was sent from a space control
 centre in Crimea. According to the paper, it includes music, an
 encrypted greetings message in Russian and an English-Russian
 dictionary "to help the aliens translate the Russian text".
 The tabloid KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA, on the other hand,  is
 *delighted to have successfully hoaxed the UFO experts. A team from
 *the paper spent 10 months creating an authentic-looking crop
 *circle,  using over-doses of fertilizer and a mechanical device on a
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