11.   She was to play a figure skater who is the girlfriend of a Russian mobster and who is shot to death on the ice, she said.

12.   The plot, involving nuns, Russian mobsters, and a chase from Chicago to Mississippi, is too silly to go into.

13.   The target is a Palm Springs jewelry store where, on a certain day every year a Russian mobster delivers a shipment of smuggled diamonds worth millions.

14.   The trail leads Alain to New York and the Russian mobsters who control the Little Odessa section of Brooklyn.

15.   The trial nearly two years ago of an alleged Russian mobster, Sergei Mikhailov, was unprecedented by the standards of Swiss justice.

16.   There are also a host of lesser lights, including drug traffickers, Russian mobsters and tax dodgers.

17.   Police fear the sentencing of the Russian mobster known as Yaponchik could touch off a turf war in Russia, the ITAR-Tass news agency said Thursday.

18.   A Miami Beach detective assigned to an organized crime task force targeting Russian mobsters became the nightclub owner known only as Vladimir in the sting.

19.   About a dozen suspected Russian mobsters were arrested Monday as they met in a ski resort in northern Italy, police said.

20.   An FBI official told a U.S. Congressional panel Wednesday that Russian mobsters in America could pose a major threat.