JRL #7031

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Population	1	Russia's demographic problems not as severe as "sceptics" claim, says minister	Prime-TASS
Crime	2	Criminal Activity Accounts for Half of Russia's Income	Rosbalt
Chechnya & Terrorism	3	US May List Some Chechen Groups as Terrorists. (Armitage)	Voice of America
Chechnya & Georgia	4	US DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICIAL: WASHINGTON WILL NOT CONDEMN MOSCOW IN CASE IT LAUNCHES PREVENTIVE STRIKES AGAINST CHECHEN MILITANTS ON GEORGIAN TERRITORY	RIA Novosti
Ukraine, Georgia, NATO	5	Ukraine, Georgia not yet prospective NATO members: Armitage	AFP
Economic Development	6	Russia wasting chance to reshape economy - magnate. (Khodorkovsky)	Reuters
Putin & Strategic Defense	7	Russia's Putin discusses strategic defence with visiting academic. (Sagdeyev)	BBC Monitoring
Visas	8	re 7030-Immigration Card	Beth Knobel
Chechnya Referendum, Refugees	9	Chechen refugees in the dark on constitutional referendum	AFP
Media Anniversary	10	Russia: 300th Press Anniversary Celebrated	RFE/RL Gregory Feifer
Law	11	re: 7030-Legal Profession - Russian Lawyer's point of view	Andrei Liakhov
Putin Foreign Policy	12	Is Russia closing in on itself again?	New Statesman (UK) John Lloyd
EU, NATO	13	Ambivalent Neighbors: The EU, NATO and the Price of Membership. A panel discussion to launch the new Carnegie book edited by Anatol Lieven and Dmitri Trenin	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace meeting report
Reagan & Communism	14	There he goes again; Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism.	The Nation book review Walter Uhler
News	15	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman