11.   His alarm reached the regional Russian military office in Urus-Martan, and then the main Russian base at Khankala, west of Grozny.

12.   Indeed, the location of Russian bases not far from the prospective pipeline has been a thorn in the flesh of the international corporations involved in the project.

13.   It is calling for action to prevent disaster from nuclear waste at a Russian base north of the Arctic Circle.

14.   It has decided to move the capital here from Almaty, agreed to Russian military bases, and partially merged their armies.

15.   It was a chance meeting well after midnight on the enormous Russian base on the edge of Grozny.

16.   Later that evening, at the Russian military base on the outskirts of Grozny, gunfire filled the night as troops opened fire in the Chechen darkness.

17.   Many of the airstrikes are normally staged from the sprawling Russian base here at Mozdok, in the Russian republic of North Ossetia just northwest of Chechnya.

18.   On Sunday, an explosion killed five more people at a Russian military base in Vladikavkaz, a regional capital near Chechnya.

19.   Speaking to reporters in a barracks at a heavily guarded Russian military base after the visit, Putin declared the operation a success so far.

20.   The remainder, along with a group of administrative officers who will complete the turnover of Russian bases, are to leave before mid-September.