11.   Thousands of Russian troops and hundreds of armoured vehicles entered the Caucasus republic on Sunday to end a three-year independence bid.

12.   Thousands of Russian troops and hundreds of armoured vehicles poured into Chechnya Sunday to clamp down on a three-year independence bid by the Caucasus republic.

13.   Russian troops poured into Chechnya in December to crush an independence bid led by Dzhokhar Dudayev.

14.   Russian troops poured into the small Caucasus republic last December to crush an independence bid led by Dudayev.

15.   Russian troops entered the rebel republic two weeks ago to crush a three-year independence bid by Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

16.   Russian troops stormed into the breakaway mostly Moslem republic last December to crush an independence bid led by President Dzhokhar Dudayev.

17.   Russian troops poured into the small Caucasus republic last December to crush an independence bid led by Dzhokhar Dudayev.

18.   The bloody opposition assault on the separatist Chechen government Saturday capped three years of manoeuvering by Russia to scuttle the last independence bid in the vast Russian Federation.

19.   The encounter was the latest event in what Abkhaz say is a tightening economic blockade meant to strangle their independence bid.

20.   The JKLF independence bid is vehemently opposed by Pakistan, although the organization is allowed to operate in the country.