1.   Russia is experiencing a wave of organized crime that threatens its fledgling free market system and could undermine its newborn democracy.

2.   His state visit to Lima, Peru, on Saturday will mark the first time any U.S. president has visited that newborn Andean democracy.

3.   In five ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, newborn democracy has been stunted.

4.   In Russia, which Washington nurtured as a newborn democracy, the reaction sounded like old-fashioned Cold War rhetoric.