1.   But further west the picture remained the traditional one of short-lived Russian embassies whose maintenance by their hosts frequently led to embarrassing disputes.

2.   The International Red Cross and the Russian embassy in Baghdad, representing British interests, have asked to visit Paul Ride in his prison cell.

3.   Copies of service records belonging to hundreds of seamen have been forwarded to the Russian embassy via the Navy records office in Portsmouth.

4.   No one at the Russian embassy was available for comment.

5.   An official of the Russian embassy in Washington declined to comment.

6.   Anatoly Zubekhin, cultural minister in the Russian embassy here, said Monday he expects it will take lawyers at least a few more days to resolve the dispute.

7.   After a six-day standoff, the truck went to the Russian embassy.

8.   Officials at the Russian embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment.

9.   Putin, at the Russian embassy, took a markedly different tack.

10.   Surveillance agents observed Nicholson getting into the back seat of a vehicle with diplomatic plates traced to the Russian embassy.