1.   The measures empowered the south-eastern regional governor to send individuals into internal exile in other regions if he deemed them a threat to public order.

2.   In August the regional governor of south-eastern Anatolia denied allegations that the government intended to use chemical weapons.

3.   As a symbol of progress, he and Kopashin received a deed from the regional governor for the land where the weapons destruction facility will be built.

4.   A regional governor recently took over the team, promising, residents said, to spend more money on it.

5.   Alexander Lebed, a regional governor and former army general, said the revolt was possible in the disgruntled, ill-paid army.

6.   But changing the way tax money is spent is a problem that Yeltsin, who depends on the political support of regional governors, would rather not face.

7.   But Dmitry Ayatskov is the first regional governor in Russia to take the plunge and sponsor legislation to open government brothels.

8.   Faces test next month when he seeks election as a regional governor.

9.   He has made regional governors sackable, and removed their automatic membership of the upper house of parliament.

10.   He has warned against the independence of regional governors and seems ambivalent about press freedoms.