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BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 Jason Bush	After The Massacre: No Fast Fixes For Putin Liberals in Russia and the West say the Russian President should be doing more to stop the violence by negotiating a political settlement in Chechnya. But his options to end the violence are limited.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Jason Bush	Getting Past Yukos At a time when oil prices are spiking and new fields are scarce, the global oil companies are looking hungrily at Russia despite the Putin vs. Yukos debacle.
BusinessWeek September 6, 2004	Russian Air Disaster Two Russian airliners flying from Moscow to cities in southern Russia crashed almost simultaneously on Aug. 24, killing all 89 on board. Police investigators have found no initial evidence of terrorism, but many experts suspect foul play.
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Jason Bush	The Kinks In Russia's Oil Pipeline If Yukos is dismembered, the surviving private companies are bound to think twice before investing. Global oil markets -- and Russia -- would suffer as a result.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Jason Bush	A Renaissance For Russian Science Student enrollments are up, and multinationals are chasing grads. However, without an influx of qualified teachers, Russian science may be living on borrowed time.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2004 Bill Mann	YUKOS: From Dismal to Worse The Russian government claims it doesn't want to take down YUKOS, but that's what it's doing.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Jason Bush	Murder Most Foul In Moscow The murder of Paul Klebnikov, 41, a U.S. citizen and editor of the recently launched Russian edition of Forbes, casts more doubt on Russia's commitment to a civil society.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Jason Bush	Is Russia's Crisis Over? Not Just Yet The mobs of customers that swarmed Russia's consumer banks in early July have ebbed. The biggest run on deposits since the great Russian meltdown of 1998 is coming to an end. But for how long?
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Rich Smith	Bank on Russia's Instability Western banks may profit from renewed uncertainty about Russian banks' stability.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Rich Smith	Russian Market in Gulag Investors have been punishing such fine companies as telecoms Mobile Telesystems, VimpelCom, and dairy king Wimm-Bill-Dann for the sins of the oil barons who run Russia's oil and gas sector.
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