JRL #7070

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Labor	1	Russian Labour Ministry reports 2002 employment and benefit statistics	ITAR-TASS
Labor	2	Russian Labour Minister: Social Indicators Improved Last Year	Rosbalt
Duma Elections, Poll	3	Three parties have chance to be elected to State Duma so far - poll	Interfax
Jackson-Vanik	4	ANTI-RUSSIAN JACKSON-VANIK AMENDMENT TO GO SOON	RIA Novosti
Media, NTV	5	New deputy chief at Russia's NTV hints at return of "old hands."	BBC Monitoring
Economy, Trade	6	'Russian Davos' to Take Place in Perm at End of February	Rosbalt
Iraq War, Russia	7	Russia has no plans to get involved in Iraq war - General Staff	Interfax
Fascism	8	Skinhead movement attracts more teenagers in central Russian city	BBC Monitoring
Yeltsin	9	Russian ex-president travels to roots. (Yeltsin)	BBC Monitoring
Iraq, U.S.-Russian Relations	10	Iraq crisis may test maturity of Russian-US relations - foreign minister	RIA Novosti
Corruption	11	Putin seeks business leaders' advice on fighting corruption	BBC Monitoring
Corruption	12	Police Corruption Chokes Progress	RFE/RL Gregory Feifer
Iraq	13	The Blind Debating the Deaf	Izvestia Nikolai Zlobin
Iraq, Europe, Asia	14	EURASIAN STATES GRAPPLE WITH DIFFICULT CHOICES OVER LOOMING IRAQ OFFENSIVE	eurasianet.org Ariel Cohen
Iraq Oil, Russia	15	Iraq and Russia could not replace Saudi Arabia as oil guarantors	Financial Times  (UK) letter
Business, Investment, BP, UES	16	Russian power game	Financial Times (UK) editorial
Power Reform	17	Power Struggle. (re Chubais' UES)	Forbes magazine Paul Klebnikov
Political Parties	18	Russia's main pro-Kremlin party vows to follow voters' wishes. (One Russia)	BBC Monitoring
IT	19	Russia Loses Ground in IT Race	Moscow Times Larisa Naumenko
Music	20	Fame Is Slow for a Russian Band. (re The Ballad of Bering Strait)	New York Times movie review Elvis Mitchell
World War II	21	Somewhere in Russia. (WWII commemoration)	Budapest Sun Esther Vécsey
Siberia	22	A Course That Ends in a Siberian Odyssey (re Wellesley College course Lake Baikal: The Soul of Siberia)	Chronicle of Higher Education Thomas Bartlett
Armenia Election	23	Kocharian favourite as Armenia's weary voters choose a president	AFP