1.   Among those who resigned was the deputy for emergencies, Konstantin Tolstoshein, who had briefly run the province after Nazdratenko quit.

2.   He is running his province badly.

3.   Putin has moved quickly to rein in the governors, potentially powerful political forces who sometimes have run their provinces as autocrats, almost independent of Moscow.

4.   The province had been run by the two historically white parties, the New National Party and the Democratic Party, which had merged to become the Democratic Alliance.

5.   The Serbs who had run the province were in retreat and the ethnic Albanians who had fled to refugee camps came streaming back.

6.   Belgrade had been reluctant to endorse Serb participation, demanding instead that the U.N. mission running the province guarantee security and improve living conditions for the Serbs first.

7.   Cong is a former deputy governor and member of the Communist Party committee that runs the province, which surrounds Beijing in northeastern China.

8.   He then nominated his wife to run the province.

9.   Moderate Kosovo Serbs decided Sunday to resume cooperation with ethnic Albanians and U.N. representatives by returning to an interim U.N.-controlled government running the province.

10.   The census, carried out in April, did not include Kosovo, a Yugoslav province now being run by NATO and the United Nations.