JRL #7237

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Blair-Putin Summit	1	Russian, British Leaders to Meet on Iraq	AP
Blair-Putin Summit, Oil & Gas	2	Oil and gas to grease cogs at Blair-Putin summit	Reuters
Blair-Putin Summit	3	Don't mention the war ... or the corruption, or the menacing growth of the secret service, or his crooked former colleagues. As Vladimir Putin arrives on a state visit to the UK today, Nick Paton Walsh lists a few things that won't be cropping up in the Russian president's chit-chat with the Queen.	The Guardian (UK)
Military Reform	4	Putin appeals to Russian officer corps to help reform army	BBC Monitoring
Russian Politics	5	WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON IN RUSSIA?	Trud Vyacheslav NIKONOV
Literature, Belarus, Bykov	6	Acclaimed and hounded, Belarus writer Bykov dies	Reuters
Media Repression, TVS	7	Russia back in the USSR with private TV shutdown: press	AFP
Media Repression, TVS, Putin	8	Russian liberal die-hard lays blame for TVS shutdown at Putin's door. (Valeriya Novodvorskaya)	BBC Monitoring
Environment, Chapayevsk Disaster	9	Russian industrial town suffering from environmental disaster	BBC Monitoring
Oil	10	Nicely Stuck Between Two Oil Foes	Moscow Times Valeria Korchagina
Religious Oppression, Corruption, Okhotin	11	Baptist Youth Pastor Accused of Smuggling in Russia	Religion News Service Frank Brown
Religion, Art, Russian Icons in Washington	12	Russian Icons on Exhibit at Pope John Paul II Cultural Center	Pope John Paul II Cultural Center (Washington DC)
Poverty	13	Focus the fight on poverty. What has been called Russian ‘reform’ is really no such thing.	The Russia Journal Ajay Goyal
Regions	14	How Many Regions Does Russia Need?	Rosbalt
Tajikistan Oppression, Rakhmonov	15	Tajiks hand president up to 14 more years in power	Reuters
Turkmenistan Oppression, Human Rights	16	'People like Putin go to prison in Turkmenistan'	gazeta.ru
AIDS	17	AIDS in Russia. Saying versus doing. Russia is running out of time to curb AIDS before it devastates the country.	The Economist (UK)