1.   Berezovsky said he decided to go public with his accusations of official complicity in the apartment bombings because he feared the Kremlin would try to block the effort.

2.   But he has cooperated with Moscow since Russian troops returned last fall, after raids on neighboring Dagestan and apartment bombings that the Kremlin blames on Chechen rebels.

3.   But they all deny the two men had anything to do with a series of apartment bombings in Russia.

4.   But, just as they did after the still unsolved apartment bombings a year ago, officials say it must be the doing of Chechens.

5.   Last August, Islamic insurgents from Chechnya invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan, and were blamed for a series of unsolved apartment bombings in Dagestan and Russia.

6.   Moscow invaded the region in response to a wave of apartment bombings and attacks on neighboring regions.

7.   Nothing about the apartment bombings resembles the modus operandi of the Chechens who have been fighting to free their homeland of Russian domination.

8.   The apartment bombings set off a wave of anti-Chechen sentiment, although a direct Chechen link has not been proven.

9.   The Kremlin launched its military assault on Chechnya in late September after a series of apartment bombings that killed hundreds of people in Moscow and other Russian cities.

10.   The Kremlin also blames the rebels for a series of deadly apartment bombings in September, a charge Basayev has denied.