JRL #7213

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Hardt Retirement	1	Top Russia Expert Retiring From US Congressional Reseach Service. (John Hardt)	Voice of America Barry Wood
Katzner Obituary	2	Russian Language Expert Katzner Dies	AP
Elections	3	Russian parliament brings vote date forward	Reuters
Human Rights	4	HR commissioner says even his rights are violated	gazeta.ru
Human Rights	5	Activists Say Human Rights Violations Rampant in Russia	RFE/RL Washington BRIEFING REPORT
Russian Immigrants, U.S. National Security	6	Russian Interests Vs. American National Security. Russian immigrants work for the American security.	pravda.ru
Political Parties, Yaboloko	7	TO SURVIVE, YABLOKO WILL HAVE TO FORGET ITS PRINCIPLES	Rossiiskaya Gazeta Vitaly TRETYAKOV
Chechnya Amnesty	8	Russians divided over Chechen amnesty - poll	Interfax
Putin System	9	The Dilemmas of “Red or Expert.”	www. untimely-thoughts.com Peter Lavelle
Media, TV Ownership	10	Shareholder shift ends debilitating dispute at last Russian independent TV	AFP
Economic Growth	11	It is unlikely that Russia Will Manage to Achieve 10-Percent GDP Growth	Kommersant Julian Schweitzer [World Bank]
Communal Apartments	12	City Anniversary Changes Little For Residents Of Petersburg's 'Kommunalki.'	RFE/RL Jeremy Bransten
Oligarch Coup	13	Oligarchs prepare political coup	RosBusinessConsulting
Oligarch Coup	14	St Pete's group may hurt Putin while targeting oligarchs - TV commentator. (Yuliya Latynina)	BBC Monitoring
Economy	15	Capitalizing on good fortune	Prime-TASS Peter Westin
Stalin, New Book	16	The accountancy of pain. Robert Service reads Gulag by Anne Applebaum, a study of Stalin's forced labour camps that examines the logistics of the gulag system as well as its horror.	The Guardian (UK) book review
Zoo Abuses	17	Report describes Russian zoo as abusive, notes hundreds of animal deaths	Knight Ridder Newspapers Mark McDonald