JRL #7066

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Visas, Trade	1	A Group Links Visa Hassles to Trade Ties	Moscow Times Robin Munro
Investment	2	Russian investment abroad exceeds foreign investment in Russia	Interfax
Chechnya Casualties	3	Russian News Agency Retracts Report.(re casualties in Chechnya)	AP
News	4	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Population, Death Rate	5	Russian Mortality	M.J.Ellman
Kovalyev	6	The Ghost of Russia's Conscience. (Sergei Kovalyev)	Wall Street Journal/ Washington Post Fred Hiatt
Kovalyev	7	Kovalyov Takes Grim Message to U.S.	Moscow Times Matt Bivens
Taxes	8	Russian taxpayers to face lie detector	The Guardian (UK) Nick Paton Walsh
Economic Development Plan	9	DRAFT PROGRAMME OF RUSSIA'S SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN 2003-2005	RIA Novosti
Prisons	10	Russian prison population shrank by 100,000 in 2002 - minister	Interfax
Preventive Wars	11	21ST CENTURY AND PREVENTIVE WARS	Izvestia Fyodor Burlatsky
U.S.-Russian Relations	12	AMERICOCENTRISM IS DANGEROUS FOR MOSCOW	Nezavisimaya Gazeta Isabelle Facon Arnaud Dubien
Iraq & Europe	13	EUROPE IS FIGHTING FOR ITSELF, NOT FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN. Russian experts comment on the situation around Iraq. (Anatoly Utkin and Aleksei Malashenko)	Gazeta
Iraq & Russia	14	Experts: U.S. Must Not Act Like a Cowboy in a Saloon	Moscow Times Natalia Yefimova
Baths	15	A life in the day: Maria Likhacheva, Moscow steam bath attendant.	The Sunday Times (UK)
Duma Elections	16	STATE DUMA EXPECTED TO BE RENEWED BY ONE-THIRD IN DECEMBER. (Sergei Markov, Vyacheslav IGRUNOV, Andrei RYABOV, Igor BUNIN)	Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Oligarch Berezovsky	17	Exiled Russian Oligarch Plots His Comeback. (Berezovsky)	New York Times Alan Cowell
Foreign Minister Ivanov New Book	18	Coping with Contradictions. Igor Ivanov raises as many questions as he answers in a new book on Russian foreign policy.	Transitions Online Mark Katz
Small Business	19	Few Causes for Optimism in Small Enterprise	St.Petersburg Times Irina Khakamada
Investment	20	Russian Business Ethic: Give Your Money and Get Out! The unbearable investment climate in Russia is created by oligarchy itself.	pravda.ru Alexandr Artemov