| Tennis |
1 |
Russian squadron threaten Williams' Wimbledon monopoly |
AFP |
| Mental Health |
2 |
Russia's mental health revolution. Doctors in Russia are
spearheading a revolution in the way patients with mental illnesses are
treated. |
BBC |
| St. Petersburg |
3 |
Russia's first city of art, culture, heroin.
(St. Petersburg) |
Toronto Star
Michael Mainville |
| Poverty, Dostoevski |
4 |
Dostoevsky's descendants beg for relief from their poverty |
Sunday Times (UK)
Mark Franchetti |
| Chechnya, Refugees |
5 |
Forced to Return. (re Chechnya) |
Washington Post
editorial |
| Foreign Investment,
Eastern Europe |
6 |
Full of eastern promise. The economies of the former Soviet
bloc are growing fast, but restrict your investment to a sensible level. |
Sunday Telegraph (UK) Paul Farrow |
| Economy, Putin, GDP |
7 |
Economic Wonder Will Kill Russia. A report delivered by
Presidential Aide Andrey Illarionov revealed that Russian functionaries do
not know how to fulfill the objective of doubling GDP by 2010 set by
President Vladimir Putin. |
pravda.ru |
| Oil, Sakhalin |
8 |
A Boom From Oil Transforms a Russian Island (Sakhalin) |
New York Times
James Brooke |
| Illegal Logging, Fires |
9 |
Russian Officials See Shadows of Illegal Loggers in Forest
Fires |
Los Angeles Times
David Holley |
| Iraq War |
10 |
Russian View: Questions about Iraq war go way beyond
Saddam's ouster |
Salt Lake Tribune
Michael Nakoryakov |
| Stalin, New Book |
11 |
Trying to unravel a Stalinist conspiracy. Soviet dictator's
desire to solidify power led to plot, authors argue. (re Stalin's Last
Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953) |
Chicago Tribune
book review
Hal Piper |
| Stalin |
12 |
Cover story: Stalin's women. Pictures of a birthday party,
forgotten for half a century in the Communist archives in Moscow until
they were unearthed by Simon Sebag Montefiore, led him to discover a story
of romance and terror at the court of Joseph Stalin, the Red Tsar. |
Sunday Times (UK)
|
| Business, Democracy |
13 |
Russian visitors get lessons in business, democracy on tour |
Gainesville Times (US-Georgia)
editorial |
