JRL #7065

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BP Deal Reneging	1	BP may lose huge gas field in Russia-paper	Reuters
Legal Reform, Jury Trials	2	Russia begins new twist on trials: juries	Knight Ridder Newspapers Mark McDonald
Russian News	3	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Chechnya War Casualties	4	Russian troops casualties in Chechnya exceed 4,700 in 2002	Prime-TASS
Oil Production	5	Russia Becomes World's Leading Oil Producer	Rosbalt
Sex Slaves	6	Guilty secrets of Russia's 'sex slaves.'	BBC Steve Rosenberg
Oil	7	LOOSE PACKAGING IN THE RUSSIAN OIL BUSINESS	The Russia Journal John Helmer
Economy	8	Can the 'Soviet Sandwich' really be edible?	The Russia Journal Peter Lavelle
Business, Gazprom	9	GAZPROM'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY	RIA Novosti
Business, Gazprom	10	Gazprom celebrates 10 years of no reforms	gazeta.ru
Communists	11	COMMUNISTS BRAWL OVER THE CASH REGISTER. Zyuganov will have to cross swords with Glazyev.	Stringer
Iraq, NATO, CIA	12	NATO'S BAGHDAD PACT. The CIA relies on Putin.	Novye Izvestia Marina Kalashnikova Viktor Kalashnikov
Power Reform	13	Moscow paves the way for power sector change	Financial Times (UK) Rafael Behr Andrew Jack
Media Repression, NTV	14	Bad News from Russia. NTV television loses its top news anchor — and its independence — as Putin extends his control.	Time Europe Yuri Zarakhovich
Putin & Military	15	Putin's military Priorities	Roger McDermott
Curling	16	Hurrying hard in Moscow. Hip Russians try `chilling out' with rocks and brooms But some men say curling is too much like housework.	Toronto Star Michael Mainville
Music, Shostakovich	17	Menace, music in the old Soviet Union. Solomon Volkov chronicled the fear and defiance in Shostakovich.	Baltimore Sun Tim Smith