1.   Efforts to telephone the airport and the border guards command were unsuccessful.

2.   Russian border guards shot and killed two suspected Chinese poachers after they allegedly resisted arrest and attacked the Russians, the border guard command said Monday.

3.   Separately, the border guard command said a helicopter bringing supplies for one of the border posts crashed Tuesday in the Pamir mountains due to difficult flying conditions.

4.   The border guard command said seven men crossing the Pyandzh River into Tajikistan were spotted by a patrol and a shootout ensued.

5.   The boat was escorted out by a Russian border patrol ship on Wednesday evening, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing border guards command.

6.   The border guard command said the servicemen spotted three men trying to cross the border into Tajikistan and tried to detain them, but the suspects opened fire.

7.   The border guard command said three men crossing into Tajikistan were spotted by a patrol and a shootout ensued.

8.   When asked to identify themselves they presented Russian military IDS, an officer with the Oroshaza border guard command said.

9.   The accord should boost cooperation in preventing the smuggling of contraband including narcotics, the Russian border guard command in the Primorye region said.