1.   ...an assembly of party members from the Russian republic.

2.   As conditions have worsened in the bankrupt Russian republic, the justice ministry in Moscow has attempted to put a halt to increasingly poisonous anti-Semitic incitements by the Communists.

3.   But Chechens who have fled here into Ingushetia, a neighboring Russian republic, portray the situation as in some ways more desperate than during the earlier war.

4.   Challenging a key provision of the peace accord for Chechnya, the Kremlin warned Saturday that the southern Russian republic must remain part of Russia.

5.   Islamic rebels based in Chechnya have been fighting Russian troops in Dagestan, a neighboring Russian republic in the Caucasus.

6.   Maj. Gen. Mikhail Malofeyev vanished on Tuesday, the first day of a renewed Russian ground onslaught on the city in the breakaway southern Russian republic.

7.   The company also has exploration joint ventures in Slovakia and Yakutia, a Russian republic.

8.   The crisis in Dagestan began last month when Islamic rebels crossed into the Botlikh region of the Russian republic from Chechnya, vowing to create an Islamic state.

9.   The insurgents intend to turn the Russian republic into an independent Islamic state.

10.   The police in Dagestan, a Russian republic, are awaiting instructions from Moscow on the matter.