1.   Holiday Tours will arrange for a Russian visa.

2.   Passengers get a transit Russian visa and buy tickets to a third country with a transfer in Moscow.

3.   Russian border officials detained him Saturday night for not having a Russian visa allowing him to enter the country.

4.   A parliamentary delegation from the former Soviet republic of Lithuania planned to attend, but said Tuesday that their requests for Russian visas were denied.

5.   An American reporter based in Central Asia said Tuesday his Russian visa was seized by authorities in Moscow who refused him entry into the country.

6.   Among its functions will be the issuing of Russian visas.

7.   An American reporter based in Central Asia had his Russian visa seized in Moscow and was refused entry into the country, a Newsweek official said Tuesday.

8.   An investigation will be launched to determine whether complaints of rudeness toward Russian visa applicants by consular employees are true, Ambassador Thomas Pickering said.

9.   An American reporter based in Central Asia said his Russian visa was seized by authorities in Moscow who refused him entry into the country.

10.   As of now, Russian consulates abroad will have the authority to introduce similar proceedings for Westerners applying for the Russian visas, Sadchikov said.