JRL #7246

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YUKOS	1	Russia's YUKOS warns of more searches, arrests	Reuters
YUKOS, Khodorkovsky	2	Russian oil tycoon prepares succession in case of arrest: report	AFP
Business & Politics, Putin	3	Putin Slams Big Business Lobbyists	Moscow Times Catherine Belton
Putin & Yukos	4	Presidential Ambiguity Undermines	Moscow Times editorial
Putin & Business	5	WE ARE NOT ENEMIES. The businessmen have accounted to the president.	Vedomosti
YUKOS, Bombings	6	WHERE CHUBAIS GETS HIS STRENGTH. What the Western papers say about recent events in Russia.	Rodnaya Gazeta Stanislav Tarasov
TV1 Review: News Summary	7	TV1 Review	Luba Schwartzman
News	8	NOVAYA GAZETA DIGEST
Industrial Projects, Hydroelectric Dam	9	Old-style rituals mark new sign of capitalist Russia. The first big Communist-era project finished in the post-Soviet period gave Putin a rare public relations opportunity.	Financial Times (UK) Arkady Ostrovsky
Vershbow on Chechnya	10	U.S. encouraged by efforts towards political settlement in Chechnya - ambassador	Interfax
Russia & Saddam Hussein, Vershbow	11	Russia protests at U.S. envoy's comments on Saddam	Reuters
Consumers	12	PPE Group Survey Reveals Spending Patterns and Demands of the Russian Consumer	Business Wire
Housing, Mortgages	13	HOUSING MORTGAGE CREDITING IN RUSSIA MAY REACH 5 PERCENT OF GDP	RIA Novosti
Chechnya, Putin Plan	14	Chechnya: Putin's Peace Plan Seems Doomed to Backfire	Business Week Paul Starobin
Economic Growth	15	Sizzling Growth Could Singe Russia's Economy	Business Week Jason Bush
Regions, Economy	16	The Two Russias. As oil money and reform turn Moscow into a normal European capital, the hinterlands are stuck in post-Soviet dysfunction.	Newsweek Christian Caryl
Rural Village Decline	17	Ghosts of the Heartland. More than half of the nation's villages are empty.	Newsweek Eve Conant
Harry Potter	18	Publishers announce sale of 5th Harry Potter book in Russian	Interfax
Corruption	19	A PORTRAIT OF CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA. A disheartening conclusion: everybody takes bribes!	Vremya MN Marina Grigorian