IN THIS ISSUE
*White Stream pipeline proposal advances as part of the Southern Gas corridor to Europe
*Zapad 2009 military exercises exposes weakness of the Russian defense industry
*Moscow seeks to influence Kazakh energy policy
*Erdogan may convey message from Tehran to Washington
**New in the Jamestown blog on Russia and Eurasia (http://www.jamestown.org/blog):
- Ukraine: the Election gets Organized and the IMF gets Gone
