1.   Communist Party Leader Gennady Zyuganov compared voters like these throughout the country to a drunken Russian bear jolted out of a stupor.

2.   The Russian bear has had his paw slapped.

3.   The Russian bear still has its paw over the nuclear button.

4.   As the president of a rebel republic, Dudayev has made a second career out of taunting the Russian bear.

5.   For the past five years the Russian bear was cuddly and cooperative.

6.   Police shot the two bears, who were a cross between Russian bears and American grizzlies.

7.   So the Russian bear has crawled out of its lair and is turning attention to the hapless people of Chechnya.

8.   The tangle of problems include western defeat in Bosnia, the split between Europe and America and the reawakening of the Russian bear with its old nationalistic skin.

9.   A Russian bear, however, was apparently not for sale.