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Tennis	1	Russians hog the limelight. (re women's tennis)	BBC
Individual Rights	2	Russians Do Not Think About Their Rights. The majority of Russians do not even think about defending their rights.	pravda.ru
St. Petersburg Crime & Corruption	3	St. Pete's Criminal-Business-Political Elite	Moscow Times Yulia Latynina
Democracy	4	Report Paints Mixed Picture Of Democracy In Postcommunist World. (Freedom House)	RFE/RL Jeffrey Donovan
G-8 Summit	5	Putin praises Evian summit for easing post-war tensions	Prime-TASS
G-8 Summit, Putin Press Conference	6	Putin briefs journalists on results of G8 summit	BBC Monitoring
Economy, G-8	7	Succes d'Estime, But Greatness Is a Tall Order	Moscow Times Christopher Granville
UES & Chubais	8	UES Chubais says $2 bln spent in utility share buy up	Reuters
Iran & Russia	9	Russian pundits differ on Russian-Iranian cooperation	BBC Monitoring
U.S. Iran Policy & Islam	10	Analyst Says US Claims against Iran Effort to 'Control' Islamic World	Interfax
SARS	11	Chief Health Physician Discusses Recovery of Sole SARS Patient, Virus	ITAR-TASS
Alcohol Deaths	12	Drunkenness a killer as state moves to impose spirit monopoly	BBC Monitoring
Chechnya, Maskhadov Archive	13	Russians uncover Chechen rebel leader's archive	Interfax
Communists & Yabloko No-Confidence Vote	14	Communists, Yabloko to initiate vote of no confidence in govt	Prime-TASS
Communists	15	Communist leader claims all patriotic forces of Russia rallied behind his party	ITAR-TASS
Media Repression	16	Freedom of Speech Is About to Vanish. New mass media laws are being developed in Russia and the USA	pravda.ru
China, Russia, Central Asia	17	Hu makes his mark in Central Eurasia	Asia Times Sergei Blagov
Professional Military	18	Lessons learnt from Russian armed forces contract experiment - defence minister	BBC Monitoring

 
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