1.   Bored soldiers were showing how various mechanisms operated and explaining the rate at which bullets could be discharged.

2.   Bored soldiers in isolated villages are spending their days digging fortifications, decorating bases with words made of painted rocks and trying to keep out of the pounding sun.

3.   On the day I visited, there were only two or three bored soldiers and a ticket-salesman.

4.   A bored soldier let off a small green flare, causing a nervous Chechen woman holding a baby to stumble over a shell-hole.

5.   They marched me right through the gaps in the barbed-wire fence, or past bored soldiers standing guard.

6.   As groups of bored soldiers milled around the half empty town Dzelilovic pointed across the square to the Orthodox church.