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Retirement 1 Almost half of Russians not planning their future - poll Interfax
Red Square, Bombings 2 A quiet month for Red Square. Russia: After a series of Chechen suicide bombings, Moscow's signature plaza is devoid of tourists. Baltimore Sun
Douglas Birch
YUKOS Probe, Repercussions 3 Russian scandal reads like bestseller. Yukos oil giant at centre of political, business turmoil. `Putin is too smart to let this go on much further' Toronto Star
Michael Mainville
Yeltsin 4 Re: Yeltsin Jerry Hough
Golf 5 Golf. Russian open. Russia on course where Lenin feared to tread. The European Tour makes its first stop on Moscow's only 18-hole course this week. The Observer (UK)
Kevin O'Flynn
Media Repression 6 Media law changes provoke concern about press freedom BBC Monitoring
Theater 7 The Russian mother as monster. The Moscow New Generation Theater makes its U.S. debut with two exceptional productions at the Bard College SummerScape festival. Los Angeles Times
theater review
Mark Swed
Crimes Against Humanity, Stalin 8 Barbarism begins at home Stalin is often portrayed as an isolated monster, but as Roderic Braithwaite discovers, the purges had their roots at the family dacha. Financial Times (UK)
book review
Beatles 9 Confessions of a Soviet moptop. Brezhnev and his cronies did all they could to block the 'corrupting' influence of Beatlemania. But, says historian and closet fan Mikhail Safanov, the four lads from Liverpool eventually destroyed the Soviet Union. The Guardian (UK)
Putin 10 Life Story: A simple life, according to President Vladimir Putin New Straits Times
Hardev Kaur
Russian Decline, 
War Crimes,
Chechen War Crimes
11 Russia's open wound Providence Journal
Philip Terzian
Russian Reforms, Problems 12 Follow signs in Russia — there's no direction Erie Times-News
Philip Terzian
Kremlin, Gyzlov 13 The Kremlin's Boris Gryzlov: A Politician of a New Type? Rosbalt
Peter Lavelle

 
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