JRL #7002

Plain Text - Entire Issue

2002 Review	1	Russia: a year in review	gazeta.ru
Putin 2003 Travel	2	Putin travelling schedules to be strenuous in 2003	ITAR-TASS
Putin	3	Three years on, Russians feel President Putin's grip everywhere	AP
Chechnya, Budanov Insanity Verdict	4	Appeal Planned in Slain Chechen Teen Case	AP
Chechnya, Human Rights	5	Moscow Hit for Ending Chechnya Rights Monitoring. The Kremlin has chosen not to allow a European group to continue its scrutiny of Russia's controversial actions in the war-torn republic.	Los Angeles Times Robyn Dixon
Israeli Ambassador	6	Immigrant named ambassador to Moscow	Jerusalem Post
Spy Accusations	7	Russian spy fever embroils UK ecologist	The Guardian (UK)
Oil, U.S. Investment	8	U.S. oil giants are slow to invest in Russia; laws, pipelines seen as big concerns	National Post (Canada)/ Canadian Press Bruce Stanley
Western Aid in 1990's	9	Reform for the east made in the west: Continuing a five-part series, John Lloyd argues that western aid for Russia's decade of economic transition in the 1990s was driven primarily by political imperatives.	Financial Times (UK)
Homeless Freezing Deaths	10	'Snowdrops' on Russia's streets reflect grim reality of homeless	The Times (UK)
Putin on Quality of Life	11	Putin says people's lives improve slowly but surely (commentary)	ITAR-TASS
Putin, Insecurity	12	People's insecurity remains president's concern 2003 (commentary)	ITAR-TASS
Russia in Global Order	13	Russia in world scene - review of capabilities (commentary)	ITAR-TASS
Migration	14	Western migration to the East	UPI Sam Vaknin
Kazakhstan Polish	15	Kazakhstan's `forgotten Poles' long to return. Thousands in Asia since Stalin's era	Chicago Tribune Cheryl Collins
Alcohol & Murder	16	Alcohol Linked to 1990s Murder Rate in Russia	Reuters
Pageants	17	Russian Beauties Are the Best!	pravda.ru