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Iran Nuclear Program	1	Putin wants IAEA checks on Iran nuclear programme	Reuters
Putin on U.S.-Russian Relations	2	Russia ready to be friends with U.S. - Putin	Interfax
News Summary	3	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
G-8 Summit	4	Russia's Tent Empty During G-8 Summit	AP
U.S.-Russian Relations	5	Don’t Believe the Spin. A new era of hard-eyed realism for U.S.-Russia relations.	Newsweek International Christian Caryl
St. Petersburg Summit	6	Festive Frolics, But Few Results	Moscow Times Vladimir Frolov
St. Petersburg Tricentennial & Regions	7	Regions Unsure About Jubilee	St. Petersburg Times Vladimir Kovalev
St. Petersburg Summit	8	Europe Comes together in St. Petersburg	Rosbalt
Nuclear Dangers	9	A new nuclear madness	Boston Globe Thomas Oliphant
Investment Fears	10	Ghost of Crisis Past Haunts Investors	Moscow Times Valeria Korchagina
Bank Reform	11	Russian parliament drags feet on key deposit bill	Reuters
Economy	12	"JACKALS ARE TEARING RUSSIAN ECONOMY APART." Andrei Illarionov believes that some structural reforms will be only harmful.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Caucasus Oil Pipeline, Human Rights & Environment	13	Caucasus: Rights Groups Increasingly Critical Of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline	RFE/RL Antoine Blua
Chechnya	14	BEHIND THE FRONT LINES. AMIDST ANOTHER WAVE OF VIOLENCE, WHAT OPTIONS DO CHECHENS HAVE.	Profil Alexander Khramchikhin
UN	15	DOES THE UNITED NATIONS HAVE A FUTURE? A diplomat and a political scientist talk about the future of the UN.(Vorontsov and Rogov)	Rodnaya Gazeta
Khopolov	16	Obituary: Yuri Kholopov: Champion of Russia's 'lost' modernist composers	The Guardian (UK) Gerard McBurney
Reshetovskaya	17	Obituary: Natalya Reshetovskaya. First wife of Solzhenitsyn and chronicler of their life together.	The Independent (UK) Dan Brennan

 
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