JRL #7030

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Putin Elf	1	Indignant Russians object to President's elfin double	The Globe and Mail (Canada) Mark MacKinnon
Media Repression, Pasko Case	2	Russian court frees ecologist Pasko	Reuters
Census	3	Over 145 Million People Took Part in Russian Population Census	Rosbalt
Science & Putin, Foreign Market	4	PRESIDENT PUTIN URGES RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES TO ENTER FOREIGN MARKET	RIA Novosti
Iraq	5	Russia Min: No Knowledge Of US Plan For Iraq - Kyodo	Dow Jones
Chechnya, Zakayev Case	6	Chechen Charged With Murder Urges EU, US Intervention. (Zakayev)	Dow Jones/AP
Political Parties	7	Unified Russia, Communist Party enjoy most support - Poll	Interfax
Voice of Russia	8	VOICE OF RUSSIA APPEARS ON AMERICAN AIR	RIA Novosti
Regions & Putin	9	Putin explains regions' role in Russia's foreign policy	BBC Monitoring
Visas	10	Expats Trapped In Visa Backlog	Moscow Times Alla Startseva and Nabi Abdullaev
Visas	11	Immigration cards	Neil McGowan
Business, Retail, Foreign Investment	12	Moscow To Be Left without Kopeika. Foreign retail chains begin to move in on the Russian capital.	Moscow News Natalya Davydova
Russian Business 2003	13	Dobby the house-elf on trial. (view of 2003 prospects)	Russia Business List Roland Nash
Business, Accounting Standards	14	RUSSIA BRINGING ITS ACCOUNTING STANDARDS CLOSER TO INTERNATIONAL ONES	RIA Novosti
Belarus	15	RUSSIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST - RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION FIRST STEP TOWARDS RESTORING GREATER RUSSIA. (Tretyakov)	RIA Novotsi
Law	16	Building an Empire Based on the Rule of Law. (re the legal profession)	Moscow Times Alex Nicholson
Politics & Oligarchs	17	POLITICS AND BUSINESS. The Kremlin has failed to cleanse Russian politics of big business.	Yezhenedelny Zhurnal Alexander Ryklin
Politics & Oligarchs	18	REGIONAL LEADERS AND THEIR CORPORATE SPONSORS	RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly
Latvia, NATO	19	Latvia says Russia wants toothless NATO	Reuters
Media, NTV	20	Gazprom surprises media with new NTV boss	gazeta.ru
Music, Prokofiev	21	'My father was naïve.' Fifty years after the death of composer Sergei Prokofiev, Geoffrey Norris talks to his son and Vladimir Ashkenazy	The Electronic Telegraph (UK)
Art	22	Paintings filled with emotion, rebellion. Gubin exhibit is a prelude to festival.	Baltimore Sun Glenn McNatt