| Blair-Putin
Summit |
1 |
Russian, British Leaders to Meet on Iraq |
AP |
| Blair-Putin
Summit, Oil & Gas |
2 |
Oil and gas to grease cogs at
Blair-Putin
summit |
Reuters |
| Blair-Putin
Summit |
3 |
Don't mention the war ... or the corruption, or
the menacing growth of the secret service, or his crooked former
colleagues. As Vladimir Putin arrives on a state visit to the UK today,
Nick Paton Walsh lists a few things that won't be cropping up in the
Russian president's chit-chat with the Queen. |
The Guardian (UK) |
| Military
Reform |
4 |
Putin appeals to Russian officer corps to help
reform army |
BBC Monitoring |
| Russian Politics |
5 |
WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON IN RUSSIA? |
Trud
Vyacheslav NIKONOV |
| Literature,
Belarus, Bykov |
6 |
Acclaimed and hounded, Belarus writer Bykov
dies |
Reuters |
| Media
Repression, TVS |
7 |
Russia back in the USSR with private TV
shutdown: press |
AFP |
| Media
Repression, TVS, Putin |
8
|
Russian liberal die-hard lays blame for TVS shutdown at
Putin's door. (Valeriya Novodvorskaya) | BBC
Monitoring |
| Environment,
Chapayevsk Disaster |
9 |
Russian industrial town suffering from
environmental disaster |
BBC Monitoring |
| Oil |
10 |
Nicely Stuck Between Two Oil Foes |
Moscow Times
Valeria Korchagina |
| Religious
Oppression, Corruption, Okhotin |
11 |
Baptist Youth Pastor Accused of Smuggling in
Russia |
Religion News Service
Frank Brown |
Religion,
Art,
Russian Icons
in Washington |
12 |
Russian Icons on Exhibit at Pope John Paul II
Cultural Center |
Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
(Washington DC) |
| Poverty |
13 |
Focus the fight on poverty. What has been
called Russian ‘reform’ is really no such thing. |
The Russia Journal
Ajay Goyal |
| Regions |
14 |
How Many Regions Does Russia Need? |
Rosbalt |
| Tajikistan
Oppression, Rakhmonov |
15 |
Tajiks hand president up to 14 more years in
power |
Reuters |
Turkmenistan
Oppression,
Human Rights |
16 |
'People like Putin go to prison in
Turkmenistan' |
gazeta.ru |
| AIDS |
17 |
AIDS in Russia. Saying versus doing. Russia is
running out of time to curb AIDS before it devastates the country. |
The Economist (UK) |
