1.   Also, selected airborne units and interior ministry forces in and around Moscow continue to be well supplied and trained.

2.   Most eyewitness reports of massacres over the past two months suggest that paramilitary or interior ministry forces rather than regular troops were principally involved.

3.   But it, too, acknowledges the need to work with the interior and defense ministry forces.

4.   The ministry said Armenian forces fired automatic rifles and large-caliber submachine guns at Azerbaijani positions on Tuesday, and that Azerbaijani soldiers returned fire.

5.   He added some of their residencies had been sealed off, while special interior ministry forces were patrolling hotels in the area.

6.   He said people were saying that the army and interior ministry forces had let them down in Chechnya.

7.   He said the Cossacks would be able to join the interior ministry forces, the border guards or the regular army.

8.   However pro-Rabbbani troops did not recover all their lost territory -- the new Taliban frontlines are in fact the former frontlines of the defence ministry forces.

9.   Interfax quoted Interior Minister Ramil Ussubov as saying that the interior ministry forces were surrendering their weapons Monday after government troops encircled their headquarters.

10.   Interfax did not specify how many Russian interior ministry forces were still deployed in the breakaway Caucasus republic.