1.   Reflecting Russian anger over Western criticism about Chechnya, the spokesman suggested that the whole ambush story was an anti-Russian plot.

2.   The official identified three reasons for Russian anger.

3.   The United States should not be deterred by Russian anger because of the ballooning of NATO into real estate once controlled by Soviet armies.

4.   But no amount of soothing reassurances have been able to assuage Russian anger over the NATO air war against Yugoslavia.

5.   Fokin had been recalled to Moscow for urgent consultations with President Boris Yeltsin following Russian anger over the joint British and American air strikes on Iraq.

6.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze sought Monday to assuage Russian anger at his cooperation with U.S. anti-terrorist forces, while officials in Moscow backed down from their initial outrage.

7.   In another sign of Russian anger, the official ITAR-Tass news agency on Tuesday carried what it called a secret memorandum between NATO and the United Nations.

8.   It said Russian anger at French participation in NATO strikes against Serbia might pose a security risk.

9.   Russian anger will rise if NATO considers embracing such former Soviet republics Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Ukraine.

10.   Sometimes, Russian anger about what is happening to their country gets down to the basics.