Human Rights, NYT/ Land Reform, ORT Review, Gvosdev/ Cold War, Kagarlitsky, NTV, Capital Flight, Piontkovsky, Brzezinski, Gref's Threat, Duma, NGO Classic, US Banker, Soccer, Arms Treaty

July 9, 2002: #6345

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1. Dow Jones/AP: West Accused Of Ignoring Russian Human Rights Abuses.
2. The New York Times editorial: Russian Land Reform.
3. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review.
4. Andrew Yurkovsky: World Press Review cover story on Russia.
5. Moscow Times: Nikolas Gvosdev, The Cold War Still Lives on Capitol Hill.
6. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, A Decade of Consciousness.
7. Dow Jones/AP: Russia Gazprom Acquires Shares From NTV Founder Gusinsky.
8. Vedomosti: Vladimir Fedorin, TOO EARLY TO REJOICE. Flight of cash from Russia continues.
9. Novaya Gazeta: Andrei Piontkovsky, WILL PUTIN EVER BECOME LIKE THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND? President Putin has to stop
being a myth and start being himself.
10. Vremya MN: BRZEZINSKI: NATO IS NOT THE RED CROSS. An interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
11. Vedomosti: Zoya Kaika and Alexander Bekker, GREF'S THREAT. Old industrial plants are the major challenge. The russian GDP ought to be 40-50% larger than it is, for Russia to feel secure.
12. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Ivan Rodin, STATE DUMA LACKS ANY OPPOSITION AND GENUINE PRO-GOVERNMENT MAJORITY.
13. Transitions Online: John Deever, Irina Pirigova, and Irina Khaliy, An NGO Classic. Although conventional wisdom holds that NGOs didn't exist in the Soviet Union, the story of one environmental group still working today proves otherwise. (Druzhina)
14. BusinessWeek Online: Catherine Belton, The American Banker Making Waves in Russia. Elizabeth Wallace's pet project lends to startups and prospers.
15. Reuters: Soccer-New Russia coach vows to shed 'caveman image'
16. Baltimore Sun: Karl Inderfurth, A good treaty, but we should make it better.

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