JRL #7032

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Russia & Georgia, Armitage	1	THE UNITED STATES PERMITS RUSSIA TO BOMB GEORGIA.... permitting itself to bomb Iraq. Russia has no need to bomb Georgia now, and the Americans know it. (re Armitage)	Kommersant
Law & Putin	2	PUTIN: METHODS OF LAW PROTECTION MUST BE ACCESSIBLE, CUSTOMARY AND UNDERSTANDABLE.	RIA Novosti
Putin & Science Cities	3	Putin Aims to Turn Science Cities Into Silicon Steppes	Science Paul Webster
Media, NTV	4	Reality TV in a Russian Boardroom. Was the American chief of station NTV doomed to expulsion?	Business Week Paul Starobin
Religion & Duma	5	ACCESS TO THE FLOCK. The Duma is developing a law on partnership between church and state.	Izvestia Mikhail Vinogradov
Poverty	6	Uncommon poverty of the CIS	UPI Sam Vaknin
Hostage Lawsuit	7	Nord-Ost claims fail, Strasbourg looms	gazeta.ru
Politics	8	YAVLINSKY GETS AN OFFER TO COMPETE WITH PRESIDENT. Anatoly Chubais might have to quit the Union of Right Forces.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta Andrey Savitsky
Energy Reform	9	UES Shareholder Blasts Russian Electricity Reform	Dow Jones DAVOS
Media Repression, Pasko	10	GRIGORII PASKO: MY FREEDOM IS NOT GUARANTEED. Pasko won't abandon his calling, even though he may find himself.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Terrorism, Bureaucracy	11	PREPARATIONS FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS AS A FORM OF P.R. Are security structures trying to rationalize the need for more funding?	Novaya Gazeta Roman Shleinov
Business, Bureaucracy	12	Ben Aris' Weekly comment	Russia Business List
Russian Military & NATO	13	RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF'S ANSWER TO NATO. The Russian military still spotlight preparations for a third world war.	Nezavisimoye Voennoye Obozreniye Vadim Solovyov
Religious Repression	14	Eroding Religious Freedom	Moscow Times Lawrence Uzzell
Human Rights	15	Doing business in the Russian Federation: the human rights approach	Amnesty International World Economic Forum/Media Briefing
Energy, Central Asia	16	Russia's single-minded pursuit of energy	Asia Times Sergei Blagov