U.S.-Russian Relations, Foreign Policy	1	The New "Big Fight." (interview with Strobe Talbott)	Expert
Nuclear Materials Unsafe	2	Russian fears for nuclear security	BBC
Military Exercises in Pacific	3	Russia completes largest military drill in 15 years off Pacific coast	AFP
Russia &  Korea Talks	4	Russia being squeezed out of North Korea talks: Moscow press	AFP
North Korea Talks	5	Russian Political Scientist Doubts North Korean Negotiations Will Be Successful	Interfax
Korean Nuclear Talks	6	BABEL IN BEIJING. Russia's position at talks on North Korea.	Izvestia Vasily Golovnin
Russia & Korean Nuclear Talks	7	RUSSIAN OFFICIAL AT KOREA TALKS URGES SIDES TO BE FLEXIBLE, DROP PRECONDITIONS	Interfax
Iran Nuclear Program	8	Russia engages US in new war of words over Iran	AFP
Afghanistan Narcotics	9	Drugs From Afghanistan Flood Russia	AP
Russian Military Decline	10	RUSSIA HAS EVER FEWER SOLDIERS: DEFENCE MINISTER	RIA Novosti
Military Budget	11	Russian defence minister outlines 2004 military budget percentages	ITAR-TASS
Military Budget	12	DEFENSE TO BE TOP-OF-THE-LIST EXPENDITURE IN 2004 BUDGET	RIA Novosti
Russian Power, Oligarchs	13	PUBLIC OPINION POLLS: POWER IN RUSSIA BELONGS TO OLIGARCHS, BUT NO ONE CARES	Vedomosti
Russian Power, Crime & Oligarchs	14	WHO ARE THE BOSSES IN RUSSIA? Criminals and oligarchs, the pollsters say. Results of opinion polls indicate ...	Tribuna
Political Parties	15	DMITRI ROGOZIN: THERE ARE NO POLITICAL PARTIES. Our society considers the United States to be a panacea.	Argumenty i Fakty
Russian Foreign Policy	16	Weekly mulls Russia`s foreign policy choices	Argumenty i Fakty
Military Helicopter Disasters	17	Whose 'Bravado' to Blame?	Moscow Times Pavel Felgenhauer
Chechnya Election	18	Chechen rivals brave bullets for ballots. Kremlin's choice seen as favourite in race for election to perilous position.	The Globe and Mail (Canada) Mark MacKinnon
Defense Industry	19	Defense Industry: Top-Down or Bottom-Up	Moscow Times Yulia Latynina
WMD Proliferation	20	War chemicals, from Russia with love	Asia Times Stephen Blank
Health Problems, Sick Children	21	ONLY 20 PERCENT OF RUSSIANS HEALTHY; 60 PERCENT OF CHILDREN SICK	RFE/RL (Un)Civil Societies Catherine Fitzpatrick

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