JRL #7129

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Abortion, Infant Mortality	1	Abortions, infant mortality drop in Russia.	AFP
Economy	2	Illarionov: Economy Lagging Behind CIS	Moscow Times Victoria Lavrentieva
Iraq War	3	Defeat Of US Not In Russia's Interest - Reports	Dow Jones/AP Putin
Iraq War, Putin	4	Russia's Putin, Iraq war find place in folklore	BBC Monitoring
Putin	5	Putin fans from Russian Siberian city nourish career aspirations	BBC Monitoring
Evenkia	6	Russian Geographic Center Lost Its Only Inhabitant	pravda.ru
St. Petersburg Politics	7	Top Russian governor says will not seek third term.(St.Petersburg)	Reuters
Iraq, Russian Arms	8	Russia Dismisses US Allegations of Weapons Sales to Iraq	Rosbalt/RIA Novosti
Iraq War, U.S.-Russian Relations	9	Russia-U.S. ties strained by war	UPI Anthony Louis
Iraq War, U.S.-Russian Relations	10	re 7127-Piontkovsky	Igor Biryukov
Media, Hollywood	11	TV chiefs in Russia's far-east told to slash Hollywood "propaganda."	AFP
Media, U.S.	12	RUSSIAN MINISTRY SLAMS GOVERNOR'S ANTI-US MEDIA STANCE	Interfax
Chechnya	13	CHECHNYA: REFERENDUM OVER, WHAT IS NEXT?	RIA Novosti
CIS Borders	14	Moscow Reluctant To Finalize Border Agreements With Former Soviet Republics	RFE/RL Valentinas Mite
UN Reform	15	UN Reform Not in Russia's Interests. (interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov)	Rosbalt
Iraq	16	'We didn't fly to Baghdad to drink coffee.' (re former Soviet generals in Iraq)	gazeta.ru
Krushchev	17	Stalin's Sancho Panza. Uncouth and brutal, Nikita Khrushchev nevertheless rinsed the terror out of the Stalinist Soviet regime.	Time magazine Lance Morrow
Ecnomic Development	18	Debating New Economic Program. The Economic Development and Trade Ministry has come up with a socioeconomic development program for 2003-2005 which is supposed to rid the country of its dependence on raw materials.	Moscow News
Human Rights	19	Russia "dismayed" with US human rights criticism	Interfax
Human Rights	20	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002. (brief excerpt re Russia)	US Department of State