1.   Russian commanders docked a huge aircraft carrier in a Russian port.

2.   Mr Shevardnadze says local Russian commanders are responsible and not President Boris Yeltsin.

3.   Russian naval commanders accused the US boat of carrying out dangerous manoeuvres.

4.   Although Russian spokesmen disputed the report, Russian commanders have said in recent days that numerous raids and reconnaissance probes will be carried out to reclaim the city.

5.   A number of unsolved cases relate to Chechen rebels who took advantage of amnesties issued by Moscow and by Russian military commanders.

6.   A top Russian commander, Col. Gen. Viktor Kazantsev, said that Grozny would be taken by special operations, not by storm.

7.   Accompanying his Russian commander and garbed in a Russian space suit, Linenger will first make his way to the tip of a long boom.

8.   By Christmas, Russian commanders claimed they controlled two-thirds of Chechnya, including its second-largest city, Gudermes, and were closing in on Grozny.

9.   Diplomats here say it is more likely that an arrangement will be devised under which a Russian commander could lead Russian forces in cooperation with NATO officers.

10.   Even while losing the Chechen capital, Russian commanders insisted it was they who had Basayev surrounded.