| Corruption |
1 |
Russians campaign to stamp out corruption. Bid to end
bribery, graft as a way of life |
National Post (Canada)
Matthew Fisher |
| Oligarch Film |
2 |
History Ended, and There Was Money to Be Made. (re PAVEL
LOUNGUINE'S Tycoon: A New Russian) |
New York Times
film review
Stephen Kotkin |
| Okhotin Case,
Government Corruption, Religious Oppression |
3 |
SLIP-UP ON THE CHURCH ROAD |
John Helmer |
| Xenophobia |
4 |
Black in the USSR. Xenophobia is on the increase in Russia,
propelled by groups of violent extremists. |
Financial Times (UK)
Hugh Barnes |
| Energy |
5 |
Russia emerging as energy powerhouse |
Daily Yomiuri
Vladimir Ivanov |
| Politics, Glazev |
6 |
SERGEI YURIEVICH GLAZEV -- RAISING KEYNES |
RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly
Julie Corwin |
| Washington-Moscow
Hotline |
7 |
Forty Years on Official Translator Looks Back on Russia-US
Hotline |
BBC Monitoring |
| Iraq, U.S. Threat
Assessments |
8 |
Exaggerating The Threats. Iraq is part of a
pattern. Saddam was assumed to be working on a vast weapons program to the end
because he was an evil man. |
Newsweek
Fareed Zakaria |
Animal Cruelty,
Stag Blood Baths |
9 |
Stags' blood bath draws
tourists into wilderness Julius Strauss in the Altai mountains reports on a gory
event for rich Russians in Siberia. |
The Electronic Telegraph (UK)
Julius Strauss |
| Wagner |
10 |
Ringing in the century. (re Wagner in Russia) |
The Economist (UK) |
Political Art,
Sculptor Kerbel |
11 |
Sculpting Soviet Giants, Watching Them Fall.
(re Lev Kerbel) |
New York Times
Michael Wines |
