JRL #7042

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WMD Stockpiles	1	Open arms. The vast and unguarded stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union pose a far greater threat than Iraq.	The Guardian (UK) Richard Norton-Taylor
Duma Elections, Parties	2	Only four parties qualify for State Duma in poll	Interfax
Davos	3	No News Is Good News At Davos	Moscow Times editorial
News	4	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Spy Trials	5	Spy Trials Against Russian Scholars	AP
Media, NTV	6	Leading journalists from Russia's NTV protest shake-up within station's management	AP
Science	7	ACADEMICIAN ALFEROV: SCIENCE HAS NO DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS UNLESS ECONOMY CALLS FOR.	RIA Novosti
Economy	8	Digging out the loot	Asia Times John Helmer
Iraq War	9	WHAT SHOULD RUSSIA DO IN CASE OF IRAQ WAR	Krasnaya Zvezda
al Qaeda & American Deportation	10	Deported American Questioned by FBI in L.A. (Megan McRee)	Moscow Times
AFL-CIO Deportation	11	In the Place of Meany will be Sweeney (re Irene Stevenson)	Novye Izvestiya
CIS & Kuchma	12	CIS: What Does Kuchma's New Post Say About The Alliance?	RFE/RL Askold Krushelnycky
Chechnya & Iraq	13	Web site says Chechnya may gain independence following US-Iraq war	BBC Monitoring
Elections, Parties, Law	14	AN AUDIT OF THE POLITICAL MARKET. The law on political parties can be a tool to manage elections.	Izvestia Alexander Sadchikov
Missile Defense Cooperation	15	SHOULD RUSSIA HELP BUILD NMD? Suddenly US wants to co-operate.	Moscow Tribune Stanislav Menshikov
Economy	16	WHO HOLDS THE REINS OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY. (interview with Tatyana KORYAGINA)	Parlamentskaya Gazeta
Stalingrad & Stalin	17	Stalingrad anniversary reignites debate on dictator	Reuters