11.   Putumayo has been the center of the protest, though thousands of farmers in neighboring regions of Guaviare and Caqueta have held similar protests in recent weeks.

12.   Prevented by Ilyumzhinov from publishing in Kalmykia, Yudina has to print weekly editions in a neighboring region and smuggle them in by car.

13.   Russian troops marched into Chechnya in September after rebels staged a series of raids into the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan.

14.   Russia says it is fighting Islamic militants who invaded a neighboring region last summer and whom Moscow blames for a series of deadly bombing attacks in September.

15.   Russian forces returned last year after militants based in Chechnya attacked villages in the neighboring region of Dagestan.

16.   Russian troops entered the breakaway republic of Chechnya in September after Chechen-based militants stormed villages in the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan.

17.   Russian troops marched into the breakaway region in late September after Chechen militants made a series of raids against villages in the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan.

18.   Some who had fled for the neighboring Russian region of Ingushetia, like Khava and Madina Avturkhanova, came back in early October.

19.   Studies will focus on the evacuation of overseas Japanese nationals by Self-Defense Forces vessels, preparations for accepting refugees from neighboring regions and other matters, officials said.

20.   The Communist governor of the Volga region of Ulyanovsk has reestablished Soviet-era price controls and set up tightly observed trade barriers against neighboring Russian regions.