JRL #7179

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Chechnya Bombing	1	Chechen Truck Bomb Kills 41, Wounds 110	AP
Chechnya Life	2	Fast-track love in war-weary Chechnya	BBC
Putin Parliament Address	3	Putin should answer for promises made in last year's address - Russian pundit. (Sergei Markov)	BBC Monitoring
Professional Military	4	Putin instructs government to speed up professional army plan	ITAR-TASS
IMF	5	Russia must speed up economic reform, says IMF report	Interfax
IMF	6	IMF Concludes 2003 Article IV Consultation with the Russian Federation	International Monetary Fund
Human Rights	7	Roundtable Meeting on Human Rights Activity of Russian State Outlined	Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Oligarchs	8	Can Russia's Oligarchs Challenge Putin? (Marshall Goldman)	RFE/RL BRIEFING REPORT
Privatization	9	The Piratization of Russia: An Interview with Marshall Goldman	Washington Profile News Agency
Powell in Moscow	10	Powell's Moscow talks 'critical' for Russia-US relations	AFP
Vershbow on Terrorism, Nonproliferation	11	Transcript: U.S. Envoy to Russia on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation. (Alexander Vershbow)	US Department of State
Nuclear Contamination	12	Poisoned Waters. The lakes of the Chelyabinsk region are swirling with nuclear waste. So why are people still eating the fish? A case study in Russian dysfunction.	Time Europe Yuri Zarakhovich
Politics	13	Where Is Opposition?	Moscow Times Boris Kagarlistky
SARS	14	RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS BELIEVE SARS CAUSED BY MODIFIED BIRD VIRUS	RIA Novosti
SARS	15	Sars: Russia turns on Asians. Chinese and Vietnamese migrants are treated with hostility as the killer virus rekindles old enmities. Rob Parsons reports from Moscow.	Sunday Herald (Australia)