Abortion,
Infant Mortality |
1 |
Abortions, infant mortality drop in
Russia. |
AFP |
| Economy |
2 |
Illarionov: Economy Lagging Behind CIS |
Moscow Times
Victoria Lavrentieva |
| Iraq War |
3 |
Defeat Of US Not In Russia's Interest - Reports |
Dow Jones/AP
Putin |
| Iraq War, Putin |
4 |
Russia's Putin, Iraq war find place in folklore |
BBC Monitoring |
| Putin |
5 |
Putin fans from Russian Siberian city nourish career
aspirations |
BBC Monitoring |
| Evenkia |
6 |
Russian Geographic Center Lost Its Only Inhabitant |
pravda.ru |
| St. Petersburg
Politics |
7 |
Top Russian governor says will not seek third
term.(St.Petersburg) |
Reuters |
| Iraq, Russian Arms |
8 |
Russia Dismisses US Allegations of Weapons Sales to Iraq |
Rosbalt/RIA Novosti |
| Iraq War, U.S.-Russian
Relations |
9 |
Russia-U.S. ties strained by war |
UPI
Anthony Louis |
| Iraq War, U.S.-Russian
Relations |
10 |
re 7127-Piontkovsky |
Igor Biryukov |
| Media, Hollywood |
11 |
TV chiefs in Russia's far-east told to slash Hollywood
"propaganda." |
AFP |
| Media, U.S. |
12 |
RUSSIAN MINISTRY SLAMS GOVERNOR'S ANTI-US MEDIA STANCE |
Interfax |
| Chechnya |
13 |
CHECHNYA: REFERENDUM OVER, WHAT IS NEXT? |
RIA Novosti |
| CIS Borders |
14 |
Moscow Reluctant To Finalize Border Agreements With Former
Soviet Republics |
RFE/RL
Valentinas Mite |
| UN Reform |
15 |
UN Reform Not in Russia's Interests. (interview with
Vyacheslav Nikonov) |
Rosbalt |
| Iraq |
16 |
'We didn't fly to Baghdad to drink coffee.' (re former
Soviet generals in Iraq) |
gazeta.ru |
| Krushchev |
17 |
Stalin's Sancho Panza. Uncouth and brutal, Nikita
Khrushchev nevertheless rinsed the terror out of the Stalinist Soviet
regime. |
Time magazine
Lance Morrow |
| Ecnomic Development |
18 |
Debating New Economic Program. The Economic Development and
Trade Ministry has come up with a socioeconomic development program for
2003-2005 which is supposed to rid the country of its dependence on raw
materials. |
Moscow News |
| Human Rights |
19 |
Russia "dismayed" with US human rights criticism |
Interfax |
| Human Rights |
20 |
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002. (brief
excerpt re Russia) |
US Department of State |
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