JRL #7270

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Abortion	1	Russian Abortion Rate Declines	AP
IT Brain Drain	2	Brains return to Russia from the West	RosBusinessConsulting
Chechnya, Senior Citizens	3	World's oldest person lives in Chechnya	Interfax
YUKOS Probe	4	Official: Yukos Affair Is Tricky	Moscow Times Catherine Belton
Government Informants	5	Return of the nosy babushka. To counter rising crime and terrorism, Moscow is set to recruit citizens as police eyes and ears.	Christian Science Monitor Fred Weir
Government Informants	6	Moscow Dusts Off Informers. The KGB ended up in the trash can of history. But its tactic of spying on the neighbors is getting a shot at a new enemy — terrorism.	Los Angeles Times Kim Murphy
Putin & Business	7	From Russia with fear. Putin must act before business loses confidence in him.	The Times (UK) editorial
Privatization	8	Problems of Unstable Privatization Edifice (re Anders Aslund)	Moscow Times Marshall Goldman
U.S. & U.S.S.R., Burlatsky	9	United States and Soviet Union: Power of Stereotypes. Washington Profile interview with Fedor Burlatskiy.	Washington ProFile News Agency
Chechnya, Iraq	10	Linking Chechnya to Iraq was wrong	The Times (UK) letter Peter Reddaway
Education, Math Textbook	11	Russian math	Will Harte
Chechnya, Election	12	CHECHEN PRESIDENT: TECHNOLOGY OF ELECTION OF THE CHECHEN PRESIDENT... as an element of Putin's campaign. DETAILS OF UPCOMING CHECHEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.	Novaya Gazeta Orkhan Jemal
Education, University Admission	13	UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMS: MUSCOVITES' CHANCES SHRINK	RIA Novosti
Oligarchs, YUKOS Probe	14	POLITICAL FORECASTS [press review], THE NEW STYLE OF ATTACKING TYCOONS: "LET'S DO IT QUICKLY!"	WPS Monitoring Agency