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1. Business Week Online: Paul Starobin, This Time, Putin
May Really Tame the Oligarchs.
2. Baltimore Sun: Douglas Birch, Class struggle in new
Russia. Housing: In a communal apartment building in St. Petersburg, the
capitalist present coexists uneasily with the socialist past.
3. Newsweek International: Christian Caryl, Cleaning Up the
Game. Russia's unruly oligarchs have learned that success in the Putin era
requires open books and clean business practices. Skeptics already wonder how
long the new attitude will last.
4. Harry Broadman: Unleashing Russia's Business Potential:
Lessons from the Regions for Building Market Institutions.
5. Vremya MN: Leonid Radzikhovsky, A FAMILY SCENE. Putin
versus Yeltsin's Family: who will win? (re Chubais)
6. Vek: Andrei Ryabov, THE COMMON CAUSE OF PUTIN AND
YELTSIN. The first president of Russia is back: but not in politics. An update
on the latest Russia-Belarus dispute.
7. gazeta.ru: Buy a ticket and drink in peace. (re legal
reform)
8. The Globe and Mail (Canada): Mark Mackinnon, Egoyan film
moves Moscow audience. Criticized by Turkey as propaganda, new movie brings
Armenians to tears.
9. Transitions Online editorial: The Darker Side. Putin’s
administration is scoring success after success. Perhaps now’s the time for
him to turn his attention to Russia’s laws and courts--and his own darker side.
10. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Andrei Savitsky, YABLOKO CHANGES
ITS IMAGE. Yavlinsky will cooperate with the regime but not with the Union of
Right Forces.
11. Interfax: Duma declines Zhirinovsky's suggestion to
discuss "attempted revolution" issue.
12. Moscow Times: Simon Ostrovsky, Report Finds Small
Businesses on the Rise.
13. Reuters: Russian Duma okays small business tax breaks.
14. AP: Russia Shrinking Forces in Chechnya.
15. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, Court Proves No Match
for Top Brass (re Kholodov trial)
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