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Excerpts from
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:: Founded and Edited by
David Johnson
JRL #7244
Simple Text - Entire Issue
Tennis
1
Russian squadron threaten Williams' Wimbledon monopoly
AFP
Mental Health
2
Russia's mental health revolution. Doctors in Russia are spearheading a revolution in the way patients with mental illnesses are treated
.
BBC
St. Petersburg
3
Russia's first city of art, culture, heroin.
(St. Petersburg)
Toronto Star
Michael Mainville
Poverty, Dostoevski
4
Dostoevsky's descendants beg for relief from their poverty
Sunday Times
(UK)
Mark Franchetti
Chechnya, Refugees
5
Forced to Return. (re Chechnya)
Washington Post
editorial
Foreign Investment, Eastern Europe
6
Full of eastern promise. The economies of the former Soviet bloc are growing fast, but restrict your investment to a sensible level
.
Sunday Telegraph
(UK) Paul Farrow
Economy, Putin, GDP
7
Economic Wonder Will Kill Russia. A report delivered by Presidential Aide Andrey Illarionov revealed that Russian functionaries do not know how to fulfill the objective of doubling GDP by 2010 set by President Vladimir Putin
.
pravda.ru
Oil, Sakhalin
8
A Boom From Oil Transforms a Russian Island (Sakhalin)
New York Times
James Brooke
Illegal Logging, Fires
9
Russian Officials See Shadows of Illegal Loggers in Forest Fires
Los Angeles Times
David Holley
Iraq War
10
Russian View: Questions about Iraq war go way beyond Saddam's ouster
Salt Lake Tribune
Michael Nakoryakov
Stalin, New Book
11
Trying to unravel a Stalinist conspiracy. Soviet dictator's desire to solidify power led to plot, authors argue. (re Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953)
Chicago Tribune
book review
Hal Piper
Stalin
12
Cover story: Stalin's women. Pictures of a birthday party, forgotten for half a century in the Communist archives in Moscow until they were unearthed by Simon Sebag Montefiore, led him to discover a story of romance and terror at the court of Joseph Stalin, the Red Tsar
.
Sunday Times
(UK)
Business, Democracy
13
Russian visitors get lessons in business, democracy on tour
Gainesville Times
(US-Georgia) editorial