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1. Interfax: Scope of Russian shadow economy overly exaggerated - Stepashin.
2. Interfax: FSB close to detaining key organizers of apartment building bombings in Moscow, Volgodonsk.
3. Novye Izvestia: Valery Yakov, FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE PASSES SENTENCE. A suspected terrorist is detained - under suspicious circumstances.
4. Interfax: Number of children with congenital heart problems growing in Russia.
5. The Times (UK): Robin Shepherd, Russians drown in summer alcohol.
6. New York Times: John Rockwell, A Murder in Russia, and Dance Is Bereft. (re Yevgeny Panfilov)
7. Noel Calhoun: racism in Russia.
8. Boston Globe: David Filipov, Russia struggles to treat AIDS patients. Doctors stymied by lack of resources.
9. Chicago Tribune: Alex Rodriguez, HIV numbers creep up in slumbering Russia.
10. BBC Monitoring: NTV, Youth movement protests against flawed alternative military service law.
11. BBC Monitoring: Iraqi diplomat lures Russia with promise to pay off seven-billion-dollar debt.
12. Interfax: Russian govt orders analysis into natural resources issues, nationalization is not on agenda.
13. Wall Street Journal: Guy Chazan, Russia Resists Car-Duty Hike In Effort to Protect Industry.
14. UPI: Jordan's Chechens dispute U.S. allegations.
15. The Sunday Times (UK): Joseph Dunn, At the mercy of the tsars.
16. Washington Times: Bruce Konviser, Lithuania pins big hopes on NATO membership.
17. RIA Novosti: Iran, Russia say littoral states must determine legal regime of Caspian.
18. Newsday: Liam Pleven, In Belarus, Echoes of a Soviet Past. Disappearances, dictatorial leader help further isolate nation.
19. The Russia Journal: Irina Sandul, Corporate Russia reaches into its pockets.
20. Moscow News: Dmitry Dokuchayev, Dwindling Trust in the Dollar. For the first time in 10 years, Russians are choosing between the dollar and the euro as the currency of their savings.
21. BBC Monitoring: Disputed island threatens Sino-Russian ties.

 
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