JRL #7007

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Christmas	1	Russians Mark Orthodox Christmas	AP
Christmas	2	Alexii II gives televised Christmas message	Interfax
Christmas	3	RUSSIA CELEBRATING ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS TODAY	RIA Novosti
Traffic, Flashing Lights for Wealthy	4	Dark days in store for traffic-cheating elite	The Guardian (UK) Nick Paton Walsh
Putin Reign	5	Mr. Putin's resurgent Russia	Japan Times editorial
Economy	6	Russia's quest for economic sustainability	Asia Times Sergei Blagov
Religion	7	Tatar president warns against course on Orthodox basics to schools	BBC Monitoring
Chechnya, Budanov Case	8	Russian Political Expert Says 'Unofficial Ideology' of Chechen War Won Budanov Case. (Sergei Markov)	Interfax
Terrorism Finance	9	US Blocks Assets of Charitable Fund Operation in Groznyy, Moscow	ITAR-TASS
North Korea Nuclear Weapons	10	Moscow juggles to help solve Korean crisis. The Kremlin's multilateral approach stems partly from fear of losing its position as an Asian power.	Financial Times (UK) Rafael Behr
Media	11	re 7003-Jack/Crippled Media	William Dunkerley
Education	12	Putin Says Russian Teachers' Wages To Increase 2-Fold in 2003	ITAR-TASS
Administrative Reform	13	Rossiyskaya Gazeta Eyes Russian Government Concept for Administrative Reform	Rossiyskaya Gazeta
St. Petersburg Tricentennial	14	300th St. Petersburg Anniversary	Fred Andresen
St. Petersburg Tricentennial	15	Everyone's Coming to St. Petersburg	Rosbalt
Military Hazing, Abuse	16	Russian Addresses Abuse in the Army. Defense minister says soldiers should take grievances to superiors, not a human rights group. Critics call him out of touch.	Los Angeles Times David Holley
WMD Proliferation	17	Russia: Proliferation personified	Asia Times Stephen Blank
Harvard	18	Half a Million Reasons to Leave Harvard. (re Andrei Shleifer)	Chronicle of Higher Education
Caucasus & U.S.	19	Journal Seeks to Forge U.S.-Caucasus Connection	Chronicle of Higher Education
Peace Corps	20	Peace Corps Completes Work in Russia, Says Accusations "Groundless."	US Department of State