| Religion |
1 |
About 80% Russians Say They Are
Orthodox Christians |
Rosbalt |
| Human Rights |
2 |
Rights Groups Squeezed by Russian Tax
Law. New Levy Imposed on Some Foreign Grants Seen as Display of
Anti-Western Sentiment. |
Washington Post Sharon LaFraniere |
| Powell on U.S.-Russian
Relations |
3 |
U.S. IS DETERMINED TO FURTHER ITS
STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA, STATE SECRETARY POWELL ASSURES |
RIA Novosti |
| Tolstoy Estate |
4 |
Mansion builder spreads anger on
Tolstoy estate |
The Sunday Times (UK)
Mark Franchetti |
| Music, Vysotsky |
5 |
Russian establishment lines up to mark
late dissident songwriter's birthday. (Vysotsky) |
BBC Monitoring |
| Hostage Theater |
6 |
Moscow Theater Reopens After Repairs |
AP |
| 2003 Forecast |
7 |
Is Russia ready for a watershed year? |
The Russia Journal
Andrei Piontkovsky |
| Russian Jews |
8 |
The Russian Jewish Conspiracy |
Gideon Lichfield |
| Russia & Middle
East |
9 |
Russia and the Middle East. Walking on
a tightrope |
The Economist
(UK) |
| EU, Baltic Ethnicities |
10 |
Moscow Forces Issue Of Baltic
Minorities Onto EU Agenda |
RFE/RL
Ahto Lobjakas |
| Auto Theft |
11 |
Russia's rich fuel luxury car theft
racket |
The Observer (UK)
Nick Paton Walsh |
Reichstag,
World War II |
12 |
Russian graffiti in Reichstag raises
hackles |
Reuters |
| Human Rights |
13 |
Russia Reversing Itself on Rights.
Restrictions on Liberty Increase. |
ZENIT News Agency |
| U.S.-Russia Trade |
14 |
US pledges to tackle trade problems
with Russia |
Interfax |
| WMD Disposal |
15 |
Russian TV visits chemical weapons
disposal plant opened in Volga region |
BBC Monitoring |
| Poverty, Education |
16 |
Right to education restricted by
poverty, minister says |
ITAR-TASS |
| Building Seizure,
Vavilov |
17 |
Russian government tells unique
research centre to vacate its premises (Vavilov) |
BBC Monitoring |
| S. Ivanov on Iraq,
Chechnya, NATO |
18 |
Russian defence minister on Iraq,
Chechnya, NATO expansion |
BBC Monitoring: Al-Jazeera TV |
| Putin, Ukraine |
19 |
Putin declares 2003 Year of Russia in
Ukraine |
ITAR-TASS |
| Judicial Reform, Putin |
20 |
Putin calls for more transparency in
Russia's judicial system |
Interfax |
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