| 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 |
