JRL #7220

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Independence Day	1	Russia marks Independence Day	AP
Independence Day	2	RUSSIA CELEBRATES ITS HOLIDAY AS A CONSOLIDATED COUNTRY	RIA Novosti
Economy, Putin	3	Putin, Prime Minister Paint Rosy Economy	AP
Economy, Zadornov	4	MIKHAIL ZADORNOV, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Budget and Taxes, tells Vremya MNs Sergei Guk about the ironies of our economy.	Moscow News Strong Ruble amid High Inflation
Child Health	5	Ill-health and disability rife in Russia's declining child population	ITAR-TASS
Ukraine & Russia	6	Most Ukrainians support ties with Russia - poll	Interfax-Ukraine
WTO, Vershbow, Oligarch	7	Russian Tycoon Clashes with US Ambassador over WTO Entry.(Oleg Deripaska)	Rosbalt
News Summary: TV-1 Review	8	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Soros	9	Opening Russian Society	New York Times editorial
Putin, U.S., Europe	10	Putin comes in from the cold in a climate of global cynicism	The Guardian (UK) editorial
Chechnya	11	Chechen women join terror's ranks	Christian Science Monitor Fred Weir
Putin on Democracy	12	Putin praises Russian democracy as catalyst of cultural development	BBC Monitoring
Religious Faith	13	Re:7217-Putin Prays	Cynthia Lebeuf
Putin Era Humor	14	Humor	Peter Lavelle
London Book Launch Invitation	15	World Monuments Fund in Britain invite you to celebrate a double book launch in the tercentenary year of St. Petersburg.
Book New Edition, Author E-mail	16	New edition of Moscow The Beautiful and the Damned - Life in Russia in Transition	Nick Holdsworth
Soviet Gulags, New Book	17	Camps of Terror, Often Overlooked. (re GULAG A History by Anne Applebaum)	New York Times book review Michael McFaul
Zaporozhsky Spy Case	18	Russia Sentences Accused Spy to Jail. Ex-agent who allegedly sold secrets to CIA gets 18 years. He was held after he returned to visit relatives, and his wife contends he was set up.	Los Angeles Times Robyn Dixon
Communists	19	Red Banner Changing Hands? (re Communists)	Moscow News Valery Vyzhutovich
Zhirinovsky	20	Notes from Ulyanovsk: Zhirinovsky the Unsinkable. The enfant terrible of Russian politics tells his party to look for a successor--but is still eyeing a big-time part in Russian politics for himself.	Transitions Online Sergei Borisov
Anti-Americanism, Russia, France, Germany	21	Anti-Americanism and pro-Americanism stronger in Russia than in France and Germany	Vladimir Shlapentokh