JRL #7012

Plain Text - Entire Issue

Media	1	Report: Russia Is Not Safe For Press	Moscow Times Andrei Zolotov Jr.
Chechnya Peace Talks, Poll	2	Poll Shows Support for Peace Talks	Moscow Times Nabi Abdullaev
Oil Exports	3	Energy Specialists Examine Outlook for Russian Oil Exports	Voice of America Barry Wood
Oil Production	4	Russia becomes the biggest oil producer Output beats Saudi Arabia's with 7.97m barrels a day	The Electronic Telegraph (UK) Malcolm Moore
Oil Prices	5	Surplus cushions Russia against oil price slide	Reuters
Iraq War, Russian Economy	6	MPs warn of negative consequences for Russian economy in event of Iraq war	Interfax
Japan, Islands, North Korea	7	Russia sees 'action plan' as way to defuse isles row	Kyodo
Japan, Kurils	8	Japan's Koizumi urges Putin to help end Kurils dispute	AFP
Art, Film, Russian Ark	9	'Russian Ark's' nonstop trip has dazzling views	Los Angeles Times movie Review Kenneth Turan
Music, Grammys	10	RUSSIANS UP FOR GRAMMYS	RIA Novosti
NATO	11	Better for All Than Alexander the Great	Wall Street Journal Vladimir Socor
Russian Winter, Homeless Deaths	12	Minus 4 on Mean Streets: Nonpersons Are Dying	The New York Times Steven Lee Myers
Ukraine, Pascual	13	US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual at CSIS
Chechnya, Budanov Case	14	Prosecutors join lawyers to keep Budanov in jail	gazeta.ru
Energy, Heat & Power Failures	15	Russian national grid blames heating, power failures on local utility providers	ITAR-TASS
Trade, Shipping, Volga-Don Canal	16	Russia revamps Volga-Don canal to let foreign ships in	BBC Monitoring
Military Draft, Health	17	Russian Defence Ministry bemoans poor health of conscripts	Interfax-AVN
Russia & Iran Nuclear Program	18	RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR SUPPORT TO IRAN REBUFFS AMERICAN CONCERNS	eurasianet.org Hooman Peimami
St. Petersburg Power & Heat Failure	19	Region Suffers Winter Blues	St. Petersburg Times Irina Titova