| Putin Elf |
1 |
Putin's 'Potter' Elf Look-Alike Creates A
Stir |
RFE/RL
Kathleen Knox |
Intelligensia,
Political Elite,
Public Policy |
2 |
Neuroses Old and New |
Moscow Times
Alexei Pankin |
| News |
3 |
TV1 Review |
Luba Schwartzman |
| Land Reform |
4 |
Major changes to land ownership take effect in Russia
today |
BBC Monitoring |
| Religion |
5 |
RELIGIOUS REVIVALS IN EASTERN EUROPE |
Andrew Greeley |
| Missile Defense |
6 |
Russian foreign minister: the NMD system no obstacle to ties with
Russia |
Interfax |
| Kazakh Film |
7 |
The Kazakhs are coming: Now free of Soviet
rule, Kazakhstan is in the middle of an unlikely cinematic flowering |
The Guardian (UK) Peter Lennon |
| D.C. Event |
8 |
INVITATION: A Democratic Future for Central Asia and the
Caucasus? |
RFE/RL DC |
| Stalin Propaganda |
9 |
The ‘Correct’ Way of Stalin’s Terror. There are a lot of people in
Russia, who consider Joseph Stalin most respectable politician. |
pravda.ru |
| Health Care |
10 |
Russian president's watchdog reports poor state of health care
system |
ITAR-TASS |
| Health Care |
11 |
President’s office says health insurance plan spinning
wheels |
Prime-TASS |
| Ukraine, Putin |
12 |
Putin heads for Ukraine to boost ties, chair ex-Soviet republics'
summit |
AFP |
| Ukraine |
13 |
Year of Russia in Ukraine web site opened in
Kiev |
ITAR-TASS |
| Energy Reform, Chubais |
14 |
UES chief sees parliament passing key power bills.
(Chubais) |
Reuters |
| Chechnya, Human
Rights, Europe |
15 |
Europe turns spotlight on human rights in
Chechnya. The Russians are finding themselves under increasing scrutiny for their
behaviour in this troubled breakaway region. |
The Times (UK) Philip Leach |
| Chechnya |
16 |
PACE official's ideas on Chechnya annoy Russian
delegates |
Interfax |
| Elections, Duma |
17 |
The Coming Big Bug Battle (re Duma election) |
Moscow Times
Boris Kagarlitsky |
| Siberia, New Book |
18 |
The Big Country. 'The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia' by Anna
Reid |
Washington Post
book review
Richard Lourie |
Economy,
Industrial Slowdown |
19 |
Slowdown in Russian industrial growth expected to continue in
2003 |
Interfax |
| U.S. in Central Asia |
20 |
US, NATO planning long-term stay in Central Asia - Kyrgyz
paper |
BBC Monitoring |
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