| YUKOS Probe
Repercussions |
1 |
Tycoon Takedown. The Kremlin’s campaign against one of
the world’s richest men, a poster boy for the New Russia, could threaten
the country’s fragile economy. |
Newsweek International
Christian Caryl |
| Standard of Living,
Housing, Utilities |
2 |
Russians complain about housing and utilities |
ITAR-TASS |
Investment,
Capital Flight |
3 |
Kudrin expects capital transfers to Russia to exceed flight
in 2003 |
Interfax |
| Culture, Anarchy, Caviar, Bennett Book |
4 |
Book of the week. Fisher kings. In a brilliant analysis of
Russia’s relationship with caviar, Vanora Bennett paints a vibrant
portrait of an anarchic society in the making, says Ian Kelly. |
The Times (UK)
|
Literature,
Binyon on Pushkin |
5 |
Paperback of the week. Poet of the steppe. Mike Holland on
Pushkin. (re Pushkin by TJ Binyon) |
The Observer (UK) |
| St. Petersburg
Communal Housing |
6 |
Russia's living nightmare: Communal dwellings in St
Petersburg bring together the most unlikely housemates squalid communal
houses should have gone out with the fall of communism |
Sunday Times (UK)
Joseph Dunn |
| Crime, Mafia |
7 |
Help, the Russians are coming. Forget the Red Army, writes
Vitali Vitaliev. The current crop of visitors from behind the old Iron
Curtain are more likely to be mafia men. |
The Sunday Times |
| Theater, Stalin |
8 |
If it's Summertime for Stalin in Edinburgh, it must be the
Fringe. (re An Evening with Joe: Stalin the Musical) |
The Independent (UK)
James Morrison |
| Oligarchs, Berezovsky |
9 |
How the TV tycoon fell foul of the Kremlin
(re Berezovsky) |
Sunday Telegraph (UK) Simon Bell |
| Oligarchs & Putin,
Berezovsky Interview |
10 |
'Russian billionaires beware.' Boris
Berezovsky, the
original kingmaker among Moscow's oligarchs, warns the new capitalists
against Putin's 'totalitarian' ambitions. Simon Bell meets him. |
Sunday Telegraph (UK) |
Lenin,
Communist Culture |
11 |
LENIN THE SURVIVOR. A Pantheon of One. |
New York Times
Michael Wines |
Gorbachev &
Iron Curtain Parkland |
12 |
Gorbachev Pushes Plan to Turn Iron Curtain Into Parkland |
New York Times
Otto Pohl |
| Art Museum, Antonova |
13 |
ART. She works the system. For decades, Irina Antonova cleverly protected
the treasures of Moscow's Pushkin State Museum -- and now the world is
watching.
|
Los Angeles Times
David Holley |
| U.S.-Ukraine
Relations, Kuchma |
14 |
U.S. Shifts Stance on Ukrainian. Iraq Deployment Earns
Gratitude for Once-Scorned Leader |
Washington Post
Susan Glasser |
| Tennis, Kournikova
Media Image |
15 |
Who is to Take Kournikova's Place? Anna Kournikova no
longer a sex symbol? |
pravda.ru |
