JRL #7225

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Investment	1	Russian stocks hit 5 1/2 year highs	Reuters
Iraq Oil Embargo	2	Russia Plans Embargo On Iraqi Oil Shipments	Financial Express (India): Huma Siddiqui
U.S-Georgia, Abkhazia	3	U.S. Promises to Play Substantial Role in Deciding Georgian-Abkhazia Conflict	Rosbalt
Yakovlev, Putin	4	Putin appoints St. Petersburg’s Yakovlev new deputy PM	Prime-TASS
Oligarch Film	5	Film review: 'Tycoon: A New Russian'	Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis
Farm Ownership Reform	6	RUSSIA: NEW LAW ALLOWS NON-RESIDENTS TO TAKE UP PRIVATE FARMING	RIA Novosti
Environment, Kyoto	7	Economics behind Russia resisting (re Kyoto Protocol)	The Daily Yomiuri Hirokazu Igarashi
Media	8	Press Freedom Thrives on an Empty Belly?	Moscow Times Alexei Pankin
Elections, Parliament	9	Electoral Centralization	Moscow Times Nikolai Petrov
Soros	10	Saying Goodbye to Soros. The billionaire philanthropist’s decision to pull out of Russia shouldn’t shock anyone. What is more surprising is how long he stayed.	Transitions Online Michael T. Kaufman
Art, Nesting Dolls, New Book	11	New book on Russian matryoshka	Rick Hibberd
Film, Russian Ark	12	Filming Sokurov's Russian Ark: An Interview with Tilman Buttner	Louis Menashe
Central Asia, Aral Sea	13	Central Asia: Can The Aral Sea Be Saved?	RFE/RL Charles Carlson
Investment	14	THE STOCK MARKET. NO MORE MYTHS. Russian companies use the securities market for long-term investments and acquisitions. This means the Russian capital market depends less and less on Western commodity and stock exchanges.	www.gateway2russia.com Yury Danilov
Game Theory, Conflict Simulation	15	Game Theory Is Used by Army and Bankers. Not in Russia though.	Rosbalt