JRL #7028

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Putin Elf	1	Dobby the house-elf could face court for looking like Putin	BBC Monitoring
Health	2	Good healthcare is impossible to get in Russia, Russians say	Interfax
Drugs, Crime, Terrorism	3	Russians call drugs, crime, terrorism greatest social problems	Interfax
Russian Deaths	4	Ever more Russians die of unnatural causes as population declines	ITAR-TASS
Youth	5	Back in the USSR: for Russian youngsters, Soviet kitsch is way cool	AFP
Media, NTV	6	U.S. boss of Russian TV out as Kremlin tightens grip	Reuters
Media, NTV	7	Jordan's Lese-Majeste	Moscow Times Yulia Latynina
Hostage Lawsuit	8	In Moscow, a test case for government accountability. A lawsuit brought by survivors of the theater hostage crisis continues this week.	Christian Science Monitor Fred Weir
Economic Growth	9	IS RUSSIAN GROWTH BOUND TO DISAPPEAR?	Jamestown Foundation Russia and Eurasia Review Jacques Sapir
Chechnya Peace Negotiations	10	Chechen exile president slams Kremlin peace plan	Reuters
Chechnya, Human Rights	11	Rights Groups Say Brutality On Rise Among Russian Troops In Chechnya	RFE/RL Valentinas Mite
Chechnya, Europe	12	Russia and Europe: Two Viewpoints about Chechnya. The hostage crisis changed Europe’s attitude to Chechnya, but not for long.	pravda.ru
Nuclear Arms Control	13	PARLIAMENTARIANS CONDUCTING TACTICAL MANEUVERS AROUND STRATEGIC TREATY	Izvestia Dmitry Litovkin
Russian Homosexuals	14	Russia's ``Girl-loves-girl'' pop act conquers the world. (Tatu)	AFP
Computers, Microsoft Code	15	Russian official welcomes source code agreement with Microsoft	ITAR-TASS
North Korea	16	KOREAN DIPLOMACY BACK ON ITS TRACKS	RIA Novosti
Vershbow on U.S.-Russian Relations	17	U.S. Envoy Sees U.S., Russian Interests Converging (Alexander Vershbow at Russian Academy of Sciences)	US Department of State