JRL #7034

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Religion	1	About 80% Russians Say They Are Orthodox Christians	Rosbalt
Human Rights	2	Rights Groups Squeezed by Russian Tax Law. New Levy Imposed on Some Foreign Grants Seen as Display of Anti-Western Sentiment.	Washington Post Sharon LaFraniere
Powell on U.S.-Russian Relations	3	U.S. IS DETERMINED TO FURTHER ITS STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA, STATE SECRETARY POWELL ASSURES	RIA Novosti
Tolstoy Estate	4	Mansion builder spreads anger on Tolstoy estate	The Sunday Times (UK) Mark Franchetti
Music, Vysotsky	5	Russian establishment lines up to mark late dissident songwriter's birthday. (Vysotsky)	BBC Monitoring
Hostage Theater	6	Moscow Theater Reopens After Repairs	AP
2003 Forecast	7	Is Russia ready for a watershed year?	The Russia Journal Andrei Piontkovsky
Russian Jews	8	The Russian Jewish Conspiracy	Gideon Lichfield
Russia & Middle East	9	Russia and the Middle East. Walking on a tightrope	The Economist (UK)
EU, Baltic Ethnicities	10	Moscow Forces Issue Of Baltic Minorities Onto EU Agenda	RFE/RL Ahto Lobjakas
Auto Theft	11	Russia's rich fuel luxury car theft racket	The Observer (UK)  Nick Paton Walsh
Reichstag, World War II	12	Russian graffiti in Reichstag raises hackles	Reuters
Human Rights	13	Russia Reversing Itself on Rights. Restrictions on Liberty Increase.	ZENIT News Agency
U.S.-Russia Trade	14	US pledges to tackle trade problems with Russia	Interfax
WMD Disposal	15	Russian TV visits chemical weapons disposal plant opened in Volga region	BBC Monitoring
Poverty, Education	16	Right to education restricted by poverty, minister says	ITAR-TASS
Building Seizure, Vavilov	17	Russian government tells unique research centre to vacate its premises (Vavilov)	BBC Monitoring
S. Ivanov on Iraq, Chechnya, NATO	18	Russian defence minister on Iraq, Chechnya, NATO expansion	BBC Monitoring: Al-Jazeera TV
Putin, Ukraine	19	Putin declares 2003 Year of Russia in Ukraine	ITAR-TASS
Judicial Reform, Putin	20	Putin calls for more transparency in Russia's judicial system	Interfax