1.   Friday, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu backed away further, saying Russian forces would interrupt combat operations to let civilians leave.

2.   In most cases, the civilians leave port aboard the submarine but are taken off in a skiff by the end of the first day.

3.   Many civilians left, under orders, thinking that they were going to Bosnia for a night while the Croatian threat was rebuffed.

4.   Once civilians leave an area, police often loot and then burn homes, farms and businesses.

5.   Once civilians leave an area, the police often loot and then burn homes, farms and businesses.

6.   On the ninth day, Friday, the radio said all civilians had left Grozny and there was nothing left in the city but bandits.

7.   Only a few hundred civilians left the city following the ultimatum.

8.   The military has not said how many civilians may have left since them.

9.   The Russian government on Tuesday backed away from an ultimatum that civilians leave the Chechen capital of Grozny by Saturday or face a deadly bombardment.

10.   Tolj said the army had opened two corridors through which civilians may leave, and both lead into Serb-controlled areas of Bosnia.