101.   A Russian delegation is in Kabul, but officially this is to reopen the Russian embassy destroyed during the Afghan civil war.

102.   According to the Russian embassy in Almaty, the cooperation unit will determine whether Russia should send officers to the Kazakh-Chinese border.

103.   Among the civilian dead was the wife of a Russian embassy employee.

104.   After completing his talks with the politicians, Ivanov dropped in briefly at the Russian embassy before heading to the airport to return to Moscow.

105.   An official from the economics section of the Russian embassy in the United States said he did not know Menatep had an official bureau in Washington.

106.   An explosion near the residence of the Saudi ambassador and the Russian embassy here Thursday killed two people, the public order ministry said.

107.   Assailants hurled grenades at the Russian embassy in Sanaa last week, damaging offices in the mission, a senior Yemeni security official said.

108.   Bahraini police are seeking two gunmen and the driver of a getaway car after the shooting of a guard outside the Russian embassy, an official said Tuesday.

109.   Before heading for the State Department, Primakov made an unscheduled stop at the Russian embassy in Washington that lasted for more than an hour.

110.   Bahraini authorities have arrested three men accused of attacking the Russian embassy and seriously wounding a guard, newspapers reported on Sunday.