81.   He will also meet with Ruslan Aushev, leader of the Russian Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya and has close ethnic ties to the rebel republic.

82.   However, military action is still under way in the rebel republic.

83.   Ichkeria is the name the Chechens give to the rebel republic.

84.   In a decree signed Monday, Yeltsin said his special representative would have full powers and would represent him in the rebel republic.

85.   In this highly controversial poll, the rebel republic will elect deputies to the Russian Duma in Moscow and elect a head of the Chechen republic.

86.   A presidential decree called for a clamp down on armed groups in the rebel republic and in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Northern Ossetia, a spokesman said.

87.   Belgrade has rejected all previous attempts to persuade it to recognise what it considers to be rebel republics.

88.   But she disappeared on Sunday after escaping from the military base where she was being held in the rebel republic.

89.   Chechens began a second day of demonstrations in the capital Grozny on Monday to protest the presence of Russian troops in the rebel republic.

90.   Dragan BOZANIC, the other deputy foreign minister, is a former information minister what was then the rebel Serb republic.