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Military Journalism	1	Book: It's Harder to Report on The Army	Moscow Times Lyuba Pronina
News	2	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Economic Reform, Putin	3	PRESIDENT PUTIN CALLS FOR CHANGE IN ECONOMY STRUCTURE	RIA Novosti
Consumer Credit	4	Russians get taste for credit as consumerism takes hold	AFP
Chechnya Human Rights	5	Chechnya is Europe's worst rights crisis: Human Rights Watch	AFP
Peace Corps Expulsion	6	Closing a Bridge to Democracy. With the expulsion of the Peace Corps and other promoters of Western values, Russia is ultimately harming itself, analysts say.	Los Angeles Times David Holley
Chechnya War	7	The Chechen War: Anti-Terrorist Operation or Human Rights Disaster? (Matthew Evangelista)	Kennan Institute event summary
Nuclear Waste	8	Russia shuts down infamous site of nuclear disaster. Ural plant tainted water for decades.	Chicago Tribune Alex Rodriguez
Nuclear Waste	9	Russian nuclear plant allegedly closes after US pressure	AFP
WMD Disposal, Nunn-Lugar	10	Bush frees cash to secure Soviet arms U.S. wants to stop foes from getting weapons	USA Today Peter Eisler
Nuclear Containment	11	Russian army ensures nuclear containment at adequate level	ITAR-TASS
WMD Proliferation	12	Russia to earmark $2 billion for nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction	Interfax
Missile Defense	13	Russia hints at joining in on US missile defence	AFP
Nuclear Waste	14	New deal to clean up nuclear waste	Asia Times Sergei Blagov
Capital Flight	15	Capital Flight Soared in 2002, Most Economists Say	Moscow Times Victoria Lavrentieva
Chechnya Culture	16	Psychologist Views Chechen Cultural Traditions, Their Influence on Situation	Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Russian General Troshev, Chechnya	17	Chechen war veteran flexes political muscles, sending shiver down the spine of the Kremlin. (General Troshev)	Irish Times Chris Stephen
Education	18	Malpractices in Higher Education, Education Ministry's Countermeasures Viewed	Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Ukraine	19	Ukraine: First Post-Soviet Census Results Sparking Controversy	RFE/RL Askold Krushelnycky
Religious Freedom	20	Dispute over Christian textbook goes to court	gazeta.ru

 
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