1.   Gunmen shot and killed Ingush First Deputy Interior Minister Rashid Aushev and his driver in an ambush in the north Caucasus republic Wednesday, Interfax news agency reported.

2.   Interior ministry forces are the most numerous among the Russian troops now fighting the Chechen nationalists in the vicinity of Grozny, the capital of the north Caucasian republic.

3.   A major oil export pipeline from the Azerbaijani capital Baku crosses the Russian north Caucasus republics of Dagestan and Chechnya, finally reaching the Black Sea.

4.   Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbyev vowed Wednesday to continue the war for independence until Russia pulled all its troops out of the breakaway north Caucasus republic.

5.   Chechen officials have long predicted that a Russian intervention would unite the warring Chechen clans and possibly draw in other Moslem peoples from neighboring north Caucasus republics.

6.   Chaykova disappeared three weeks ago in the war-torn north Caucasus republic where separatist guerrillas are battling for independence from Russia.

7.   Chaykova had disappeared three weeks ago in the war-torn north Caucasus republic.

8.   Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev has insisted on total independence for the breakaway north Caucasus republic -- a demand flatly rejected by Moscow.

9.   The truce accord called for Russian troops to withdraw to the outskirts of Grozny and from the southern mountains to bases in the lowlands of the north Caucasus republic.

10.   The truce called for Russian troops to withdraw to the outskirts of Grozny and from the southern mountains to bases in the lowlands of the north Caucasus republic.