JRL #7036

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Putin Elf	1	Putin's 'Potter' Elf Look-Alike Creates A Stir	RFE/RL Kathleen Knox
Intelligensia, Political Elite, Public Policy	2	Neuroses Old and New	Moscow Times Alexei Pankin
News	3	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Land Reform	4	Major changes to land ownership take effect in Russia today	BBC Monitoring
Religion	5	RELIGIOUS REVIVALS IN EASTERN EUROPE	Andrew Greeley
Missile Defense	6	Russian foreign minister: the NMD system no obstacle to ties with Russia	Interfax
Kazakh Film	7	The Kazakhs are coming: Now free of Soviet rule, Kazakhstan is in the middle of an unlikely cinematic flowering	The Guardian (UK) Peter Lennon
D.C. Event	8	INVITATION: A Democratic Future for Central Asia and the Caucasus?	RFE/RL DC
Stalin Propaganda	9	The ‘Correct’ Way of Stalin’s Terror. There are a lot of people in Russia, who consider Joseph Stalin most respectable politician.	pravda.ru
Health Care	10	Russian president's watchdog reports poor state of health care system	ITAR-TASS
Health Care	11	President’s office says health insurance plan spinning wheels	Prime-TASS
Ukraine, Putin	12	Putin heads for Ukraine to boost ties, chair ex-Soviet republics' summit	AFP
Ukraine	13	Year of Russia in Ukraine web site opened in Kiev	ITAR-TASS
Energy Reform, Chubais	14	UES chief sees parliament passing key power bills. (Chubais)	Reuters
Chechnya, Human Rights, Europe	15	Europe turns spotlight on human rights in Chechnya. The Russians are finding themselves under increasing scrutiny for their behaviour in this troubled breakaway region.	The Times (UK) Philip Leach
Chechnya	16	PACE official's ideas on Chechnya annoy Russian delegates	Interfax
Elections, Duma	17	The Coming Big Bug Battle (re Duma election)	Moscow Times Boris Kagarlitsky
Siberia, New Book	18	The Big Country. 'The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia' by Anna Reid	Washington Post book review Richard Lourie
Economy, Industrial Slowdown	19	Slowdown in Russian industrial growth expected to continue in 2003	Interfax
U.S. in Central Asia	20	US, NATO planning long-term stay in Central Asia - Kyrgyz paper	BBC Monitoring