JRL #7239

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Population	1	In Glimmer of Hope, Birthrate Is Growing	Moscow Times Oksana Yablokova
Economy	2	Russia's Economy Building on 3 Years of Solid Growth	New York Times James Brooke
Economy	3	Russian GDP Growth Leaves USA Behind. The situation in the Russian economy is improving.	pravda.ru
Economy	4	Russia sticks to 4.5 pct 03 GDP growth target	Reuters
Blair-Putin Summit	5	Pageantry for Putin; What About Hard Talk?	Wall Street Journal Therese Raphael
Britain & Russia	6	What we think of each other. (polls)	BBC
TV1 Review: News Summary	7	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
Media	8	Russian media	Viktor Kalashnikov
Elections	9	ELIMINATING THE COMPETITION. Public organizations are being excluded from elections: who benefits?	Ekspert Alexander Ivanchenko
Putin	10	AN ODE TO STABILITY. What can we expect from Putin's second term in office?	Vremya MN Andrei Lipsky
Matviyenko	11	Matviyenko set to take St Petersburg by storm	gazeta.ru
Corruption	12	Corruption, Complicity Create Loyalty	Moscow Times Yulia Latynina
Democracy	13	DEMOCRACY, RUSSIAN-STYLE	Jamestown Foundation Russia and Eurasia Review Nikolai Petrov
Democracy	14	POLITICAL FORECASTS [press review] THE STAGNATION OF THE PUTIN ERA: THE END OF DEMOCRACY OR THE OVERTURE TO A NEW POLITICAL PERFORMANCE?	WPS Monitoring Agency
Chechnya & Putin	15	A war in a faraway land that Putin wants to cover up	The Times (UK) Vanora Bennett