1.	RIA Novosti	PRESIDENT PUTIN SENDS INDEPENDENCE DAY CONGRATULATIONS TO U.S. PRESIDENT
2.	Asia Times John Helmer	Russia oils the world's wheels
3.	Moscow Times Pavel Felgenhauer	Still Cagey About the Kursk
4.	AP	Former Soviet dissident author criticizes Solzhenitsyn in new book
5.	Moscow News Yana Djin	Extremism and Nothingness
6.	The Russia Journal Gordon Hahn	The Far East and U.S. national security in the North Pacific
7.	RFE/RL Nikola Krastev	UN: AIDS Agency Warns Of Spreading Epidemic, Especially In Russia, Central Asia, And Eastern Europe
8.	The Globe and Mail (Canada)/Reuters Elizabeth Piper	Careers bloom anew for former Soviet navy dolphins
9.	Asia Times Sergei Blagov	Russia now the world's leading arms exporter
10.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta Sergei Blagov	WON'T THE G8 WEAKEN THE UN ROLE?
11.	Moscow News	A Good Sherpa Is Key to a Good Summit. Interview by Dmitry Babich with Sergei Prikhodko, head of the RF presidential Foreign Policy Administration, on G-8.
12.	Moscow Times Andrew McChesney	A Textbook Approach to Draft Dodging
13.	Yezhenedelny Zhurnal Alexander Golts	THE SHADOW THAT LAGS BEHIND. Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov disagree on every major issue.