JRL #7170

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Putin Extravagance	1	Putin splashes out 2.6m pounds on luxury yacht	The Scotsman Tom Parfitt
Society	2	The Mental Worlds of the Contemporary Russian Population. (Boris Firsov)	Kennan Institute event summary
Television	3	Russian Television: Viewers as the Missing Term in the Equation of Persuasion. (Ellen Mickiewicz)	Kennan Institute event summary
Financial Times Editorial Independence	4	John Helmer	Andrew Gowers
Internet	5	Number of Internet users in Russia reaches 10.2 million in April	Interfax
Military Problems	6	Lawyer: Russian Army Plagued by Violence	AP
SARS, Immigration	7	Russia, wary of SARS, to limit entry of Chinese, Mongolians	Kyodo
Science	8	Russian Duma Hearings on Shortcomings in Science Legislation, Funding Detailed	Vremya MN
Oil & Gas, Sakhalin	9	Energy giants begin tapping Sakhalin's vast oil and gas reserves	AFP
Gas, Turkmenistan	10	Swapping Turkmen Gas for Citizens	Moscow Times Yulia Latynina
Iran Nuclear Program	11	Russia: No Sign Iran Sought Banned Nukes	AP
WTO	12	What Does Russia Know About the WTO? The majority of Russian producers are unaware of the world market requirements they have to meet.	pravda.ru
Hostage Disaster	13	Musical theatre: Trip from fame to infamy. (Nord-Ost)	Financial Times (UK) Andrew Jack
Central Asia, Film	14	Central Asia's Lost Worlds. Into The Outlands	The Village Voice film Michael Atkinson
Film	15	Different Depths. Lilya 4-Ever and House of Fools depict quiet (and not so quiet) desperation in the former Soviet Union.	The New Republic STANLEY KAUFFMANN ON FILMS
Ombudsman Post	16	The Race Is on for Ombudsman Post	Moscow Times Andrei Zolotov Jr.
Nuclear Terrorism	17	Calming Russia's nuclear insecurity	Chicago Tribune Kurt Gottfried Adele Simmons
U.S. in Georgia	18	MORALE OF US-TRAINED TROOPS IN GEORGIA IS HIGH, BUT US ADVISORS CONCERNED ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY	eurasianet.org Eric Miller