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Romance 1 Half of Russians are in love, poll shows Interfax
Romance 2 Forget French, Russian Is Made for Love Moscow Times
Michele Berdy
Romance 3 Russia's Falling in Love, Nuzzling Valentine's Day New York Times
Michael Wines
Poverty 4 Russian statistics agency reports decline in number of poor people ITAR-TASS
Iraq 5 REASONS FOR IRAQI CRISIS LIE IN THE USA Rossiiskaya Gazeta
Mikhail Gorbachev
U.S.-Russian Relations,
Condi Rice
6 CONDOLEEZZA RICE: ALL WE NEED IS DETERMINATION. Russia and the United States: dealing with challenges together. Gazeta
Putin Diplomacy 7 World leaders seek Putin's support UPI
Martin Sieff
Communists 8 Russia's Communist Party marks 10-year anniversary in hushed tones AFP
Power Reform 9 Russian Duma approves main power reform law Reuters
Chechnya Negotiations 10 Chechen rebel envoy says Moscow must negotiate Reuters
Iraq & Oil 11 Putin weighs regime change in barrels of oil Asia Times
Sergei Blagov
Kaliningrad 12 Poll shows most people in Kaliningrad want to remain bound to Russia BBC Monitoring
WMD, Russia, Kazakhstan 13 Russia, Kazakhstan Differ in Addressing WMD Legacy RFE/RL
BRIEFING REPORT
Soviet Memoir 14 Memoir Vladimir Shlapentokh
Free Interfax 15 Free Interfax offer Interfax
Elections, Regulation 16 Kremlin Tightening Reins Ahead of Polls Moscow Times
Natalia Yefimova,
Elections 17 Kremlin betrays rightists in election committee vote gazeta.ru
Political Parties 18 DO POLITICAL PARTIES MATTER IN RUSSIA? RFE/RL
Russian Political Weekly

Julie Corwin
Oil 19 OIL ON THE MOVE. But no sign of diversification. Moscow Tribune
Stanislav Menshikov
Iraq 20 Russia straddling the divide-I UPI
Sam Vaknin
Literature, Pushkin 21 Black Russian's profound effect on literature. (Pushkin) Baltimore Sun
Carl Schoettler