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JRL #6349

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1. Moscow Times editorial: Report Only Reinforces the Rip Off. (re Moscow cost of living)
2. BBC: Ale Ritson, Ikea builds Russian mega-mall.
3. Wall Street Journal: Mark Schoofs, Russian AIDS Epidemic May Shift To New Population, Study Suggests.
4. Dow Jones/AP: Russian Rights Grps To End Monthly Meetings In Chechnya.
5. AFP: Sign of the times in troubled Russia.
6. National Review Online: David Satter, Not So Quick. Is Russia really becoming part of the West?
7. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Maxim Glinkin, TERMS IN OFFICE WILL BE TIMED BY THE KREMLIN CHIMES. Russia heads back into feudalism.
8. Argumenty i Fakty: THE NUMBER OF REGIONS MAY BE REDUCED. Some of Russia's regions may merge over the next year or two.
9. Civil Society and Governance Programme.
10. Wall Street Journal: Guy Chazan, Russia Passes Law to Protect Firms From Rigged Bankruptcy.
11. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Columnist Urges Viewing Chinese Migrants As Benefit for Russian Economy.
12. The Guardian (UK): Tom Service, Opera. The Embalmer.
13. The Times (UK): Alexander Anichkin, Villains of the peace. In Western eyes, Russia is a third-rate, sloppy, inept nation.
14. Newsday: Liam Pleven, Russia Shifts Ties With Iraq. Oil firms seek deals in West.
15. The Spectator (UK): Democracy: who needs it? Turkmenistan may not be a free country, says Katie Grant, but there is no trash culture, no graffiti, and the people are happy.
16. Moscow News: Vadim Rechkalov, Sausage, Shahid's Dream. A new generation of fighters has grown in the Chechen mountains - they had barely turned 10 when the war began.]

 
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