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1. Reuters: Further efforts needed for Russian
well-being-Putin.
2. RIA Novosti: VLADIMIR PUTIN SAY 2001 WAS A SUCCESS STORY
BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND EXTERNALLY.
3. Los Angeles Times: John Daniszewski and Maura Reynolds, After
Fitful Start, Revolution Finally Underway in Russia.
4. The Globe and Mail (Canada): Geoffrey York, Corrupt
Russian elections turning voters into cynics. Promise of democracy has been
supplanted by bribery, ballot-stuffing and murder.
5. AP: End Sought to Cold War Law for Russia.
(Jackson-Vanick)
6. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russian spy trials
raise red flag about human rights. A Russian journalist was sentenced last week
to four years' hard labor for giving state secrets to Japan.
7. RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly: Julie Corwin, BEHIND
THE SCENES OF PUTIN'S TELEPHONE CHAT.
8. BBC: Stephen Mulvey, Ukrainian memories of the USSR's
death. (Leonid Kravchuk)
9. Interfax: Russian economy can develop on its own -
economist.
10. openDemocracy.org: Susan Richards, Russia changing.