11.   Although businessmen and mobsters are the most common targets of contract killers, others are also at risk.

12.   Bankers and businessmen figure are frequent targets of contract killers.

13.   Braun was killed by a contract killer hired through a personal ad in the magazine.

14.   Ghost Dog is a tranquil-spirited contract killer, played with appropriate serenity by Forest Whitaker.

15.   He added that his threats were not serious and, in any case, he did not have the money to pay any contract killer.

16.   Nine percent of all respondents said they wanted to become contract killers, Interfax reported.

17.   Russia has worked to dispel its gangland image, but politicians and businessmen continue to be the target of contract killers.

18.   Yefimov was arrested after the contract killer confessed to the crime and told police that Yefimov was involved, according to ITAR-Tass.

19.   His union issued a statement saying Zverev had probably been slain by contract killers.

20.   The debate is part of the national outrage following the slaying of top television journalist and executive Vladislav Listyev last month, purportedly by contract killers.