JRL #7003

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NATO	1	Russia Can Learn From NATO	Wall Street Journal Tomas Valasek and Ivan Safranchuk
Putin Christmas	2	Putin gets books as New Year presents most often	ITAR-TASS
Steel	3	SKIING PUTIN DOESN'T FORGET STEEL MAMMOTH	RIA Novosti
Elections	4	Elections test civil servants-presidential philosophy (comment)	ITAR-TASS
Media	5	Fear and Kremlin hints turn reporters into Putin's poodles: The Russian media are crippled by self-censorship	Financial Times (UK) Andrew Jack
Culture, Religion, Harvard Bells	6	Whose Bells? (Comment on JRL 6600)	Nicolai Petro
Utility Price Controls	7	Russian utility curbs slow inflation	International Herald Tribune/ Bloomberg News
Polls, Putin	8	Director of Russian opinion poll centre says there is no alternative to Putin. (Levada)	BBC Monitoring
Putin Praise for War Criminal Kotonov	9	Putin Praises Former Soviet Partisan	AP
Human Rights, Chechnya, Budanov	10	Amnesty International is concerned about the climate of impunity prevailing in the Russian judicial system. (re Budanov)	Amnesty International
Chechnya, Human Rights Monitors	11	Futile Move in Chechnya	Los Angeles Times editorial
Chechnya, Hostage Crisis	12	Chechnya: Critique of Sloppy Talk	Moscow News Sergei Roy
Environment, Chechnya	13	Environmental disaster in the making	Asia Times Sergei Blagov
Russian Orthodox on Cloning	14	Russian Orthodox Church Warns Against Human Cloning	Interfax
2003 Forecast	15	Russia in 2003 - II	UPI Sam Vaknin
Christmas	16	Had the Russians Celebrated Christmas On December 25th?	Isaac Tarasulo
Russians in New York	17	MY MANHATTAN. Mother Russia in Her Dens. Stops on the Trans-Manhattan Railway.	New York Times Richard Lourie
Nazi Holocaust, Eastern European Jews	18	Memories caught on the brink of extinction. Internet archive rekindles family life in the shtetls, the eastern European Jewish villages razed in the Holocaust.	The Guardian (UK) Ian Traynor