1.   After the first Russian airstrikes in late September, the mayor, Leche Masayev, and town elders made the decision not to let Chechen fighters into town.

2.   Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent military analyst in Moscow, suggested last week that Russian airstrikes may have already resumed.

3.   Reports of his death come at a time of intensified Russian airstrikes against suspected rebel strongholds.

4.   Russia blamed the refinery fire on Chechen mines, not the Russian airstrikes pounding Grozny.

5.   Russian airstrikes intended to drive rebels from their southern strongholds killed a woman and a child and wounded several other civilians Sunday, an official said.

6.   Russia blamed the refinery fire on Chechen mines, not the virtually nonstop Russian airstrikes pounding Grozny.

7.   Russian airstrikes on the capital resumed Wednesday after a two-day pause.

8.   The report of his death comes at a time of intensified Russian airstrikes against suspected rebel strongholds.

9.   The press service blamed the refinery fire on Chechen mines, not the non-stop Russian airstrikes against Grozny.

10.   But it is a regular target for Russian airstrikes.