JRL #7071

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Quality of Life, Poll	1	Poverty, rising prices, unemployment largest concerns of Russians - poll	Interfax
Corruption, Putin, Oligarchs	2	Business elite urge Russia's Putin to curb corruption, bureaucracy	AFP
Putin & Citizen Messages	3	Putin received 2,000 citizens' messages a day in 2002	ITAR-TASS
Government Reform	4	Russian Government Aims to Move Away From Traditional Structure	BBC Monitoring
Elections, Regions	5	EXPANSION OF THE ELECTIONS. An ideal way of uniting regions has been found. The Kremlin is aiming to combine elections at different levels.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta Olga Tropkina
Political Parties	6	THE NON-PARTY SYSTEM. An update on political parties in Russia.	Gazeta Olga Redichkina
News	7	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Oil, Gref	8	Gref Says It's Time to Squeeze Big Oil	Moscow Times Victoria Lavrentieva
Media, NTV	9	Media Notes: NTV RIP, Again. Even “controlled democracy” in Russia’s media industry is too much for the Kremlin.	Transitions Online Vladimir Kovalev
Poverty, Starvation	10	36 Million Russians Cannot Afford Eating Every Day. Overcoming of poverty does not belong to the Russian government top-priorities.	pravda.ru
U.S. Investment	11	U.S. BUSINESSES SAY THEY ARE VICTIMS OF RUSSIAN OLD BOY NETWORK	Hearst Newspapers Stewart M. Powell
Oil Pipeline	12	If Trees Are Family, an Oil Pipeline Is Ungodly	New York Times Sabrina Tavernise
Slave Trade	13	Moscow targets sex trade at last	The Guardian (UK) Nick Paton Walsh
Population, Far East	14	Repopulating the East	Wall Street Journal Europe editorial
Chechnya, Berezovsky	15	Separatist Web Site Sums Up Russian Tycoon Berezovskiy's "Chechen Plan."	BBC Monitoring
Ruble	16	Russia's New Secret Weapon? (the ruble)	Moscow Times Valeria Korchagina