101.   Next month Vladimir Putin is scheduled to become the first top Russian leader ever to visit Pyongyang.

102.   No Russian leader could reassemble the pieces of the old clock, and time moves in but one direction, even in the new Russia.

103.   Obviously delighted with what he had accomplished during two days in Washington, the Russian leader hammed it up with reporters, taunting them for falling behind.

104.   On her agenda to discuss with Russian political leaders were headline-grabbing issues concerning nuclear nonproliferation, arms control and the contentious Chechen War.

105.   Over the last week, Russian navy leaders also have cited the possibility of a torpedo accident.

106.   Only one Russian leader in this century, Josef Stalin, has been tough enough to stand up to Westerners hungering for Russian natural resources, Zhirinovsky said.

107.   Powell also downplayed the significance of Putin not offering a specific weapons reduction, saying the Russian leader had just heard the American proposal for the first time Tuesday.

108.   President Clinton has repeatedly asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a career KGB officer who ran the FSB before becoming president, to free Pope on humanitarian grounds.

109.   President Clinton twice tried to call Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and finally sent him a letter through diplomatic channels.

110.   Putin and other Russian leaders have charged that Georgia is aiding the rebels by providing them sanctuary and supply routes out of their landlocked homeland.