JRL #6599

Plain Text - Entire Issue

Megamall	1	Moscow welcomes MegaMall	itv.com
Sex Slave Trade	2	Russians and east Europeans act to protect sex trade victims	The Guardian (UK) Ian Traynor
Art, Hermitage	3	A Tour de Force of Russia. History is caught in one camera shot. (re film Russian Ark)	Newsday John Anderson
Iraq Oil	4	Iraq Cancels Oil Deal With Russian Firms. Possible Retaliation Amid Speculation Lukoil Had Talks With Iraqi Opposition.	Wall Street Journal
Iraq & Lukoil	5	Ben's weekly comment. (re Iraq and Lukoil)	Russia Business List
Oil, Chinese	6	Russia's oil auction. Christmas viewing. Next week's auction of a Russian oil firm may be won by the Chinese. (Slavneft)	The Economist (UK)
ABM Treaty	7	TWELVE MONTHS AGO THE USA ANNOUNCED ITS WITHDRAWAL FROM 1972 ABM TREATY	RIA Novosti
ABM Treaty	8	Russia proceeds with "asymmetrical" response to US withdrawal from ABM treaty	BBC Monitoring
Chemical WMD	9	Website lists Russia's remaining chemical weapons	BBC Monitoring
Communists, Russian Orthodoxy	10	Russian Communists, Orthodox Church unite ranks in political fight	Interfax
Migration	11	Russian rights activists attack "repressive" draft migration policy - paper	BBC Monitoring
Chechnya	12	KHASBULATOV PREDICTS CHECHNYA WILL BE PUTIN'S DOWNFALL	RFE/RL Caucasus Report
Chechnya	13	COMPETING PLANS OF CHECHEN POLITICIANS	IWPR'S CAUCASUS REPORTING SERVICE Sanobar Shermatova
Canada, Russian Espionage	14	Spy another day: They're back. Canada has just expelled two Russian agents. Aren't these folks our pals now? AMY KNIGHT investigates why the espionage habit is so hard to break.	The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Security Firms, Crime	15	Concern raised at criminal links of Russia's "parallel army" of security firms	BBC Monitoring
UES, Chubais	16	No unresolved issues in UES reform concept - Chubais	ITAR-TASS
NATO	17	NATO Urges Russia to Reform, Modernize Its Forces for Anti-terror War. (Lord Robertson at NATO-Russia Conference)	US State Department

 
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