11.   China is a growing market for Russian arms.

12.   China has emerged as a lucrative market for Russian arms makers whose factories have received few orders from a shrinking Russian military.

13.   China is one of the four biggest markets for Russian arms.

14.   Even those respondents who believed that world stability could be improved by the proliferation of nuclear weapons opposed the idea of selling Russian nuclear arms and technologies abroad.

15.   Facing a drop in defense spending at home, Russian arms manufacturers are looking for markets wherever they can find them and Eastern Europe is a top priority.

16.   Gore declined to provide specifics on when Russian arms deliveries would cease to Iran under existing contracts for submarines, armored vehicles, and munitions.

17.   His commercial interest is in getting hard currency for Russian arms and keeping missile factories humming.

18.   In the case of Russian arms sales to Iran, administration officials said Wednesday that they were weighing retaliatory steps against Russia.

19.   Indeed, Russian arms dealers are suspected to be at the heart of arms-smuggling scandals under investigation in Angola, Peru and Serbia.

20.   It is capitalism at its finest, said one Russian arms dealer.