JRL #7040

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Caspian Oil & United States	1	Caspian Sea: Is The U.S. Losing Interest In Oil Resources?	RFE/RL Jean-Christophe Peuch
Putin on Iraq	2	Putin makes high-stakes gambit with pro-US shift on Iraq	AFP
Communists on Putin & Iraq	3	Russia's Communist leader brands Putin as US lackey over Iraq	AFP
Iraq War & Russia	4	Paper predicts war on Iraq to start on night of 7-8 February, Russian support	BBC Monitoring
News	5	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Religion & Education	6	Minister says religion not to be taught in Russia's schools	Prime-TASS
Population	7	Russia Is Given Up for Lost (re demographic crisis)	pravda.ru
Elections	8	Electronic voting system to be introduced in Russia	ITAR-TASS
Political Parties	9	Liberals see no future for rightists	gazeta.ru
Political Parties, SPS & Yabloko	10	SPS, Yabloko parties too different to do Duma election deal - Russian MP	BBC Monitoring
Political Parties	11	Senior MP, leading analyst divided on prospects of Russian liberal parties	BBC Monitoring
Elections, Oligarchs	12	Business-Class Mandate. Ahead of parliamentary elections the oligarchs have set out to build a democratic coalition. Big-time capitalists are returning to big-time politics.	Moscow News Valery Vyzhutovich
Politics, Putin	13	PUTIN SHOULD RELY ON A DEMOCRATIC LEFT BLOC	Rossiiskiye Vesti Mikhail DENISOV Viktor MILITAREV
Historical Studies	14	RUSSIA'S HISTORIOGRAPHY JOINS WORLD	RIA Novosti
Terrorism, Chechnya	15	International Terrorism and the Crisis in Chechnya: A Russian Perspective	www.inthenationalinterest.com Sergei Yastrzhembsky
Voice of Russia	16	Voice of Russia wants US airtime in exchange for RFE/RL relays	ITAR-TASS
RFE/RL Headlines	17	RFE/RL headline summary of major stories	Don Jensen
Kuchma CIS Leader	18	Non-Russian Leader for Ex-Soviet Alliance	AP
St. Petersburg Washington Exhibit	19	Myths of Saint Petersburg Exhibition Opens in Washington	Rosbalt
Alcohol, Drunk Driving	20	Drink-driving rampant in some parts of Russia - traffic police	BBC Monitoring