11.   Respected news organizations in the region include Dawn in Karachi, Pakistan, The Times of India and An-Nahar in Beirut, Lebanon.

12.   The brief item on Itogi, a highly respected weekly news program, did not give a source for the report.

13.   The brief item on Itogi, a highly respected weekly news program on independent NTV, did not give a source for the report.

14.   The survey was done by the local subsidiary of the U.S.-based Gallup Organization and published in the respected news magazine Rumbo Wednesday.

15.   Yevgeny Kiselyov, the host of the respected news program, said the poll shows that Russians are not united in their opinions regarding NATO expansion.