11.   Even Russia has criticized Lukashenko, issuing a statement Tuesday rebuking Belarus for hampering Russian journalists working there.

12.   Few Russian journalists actually make it to Chechnya, partly in response to a wave of kidnappings in the region that targeted correspondents.

13.   Generals, Russian journalists are not fighting against Russian officers.

14.   He challenged a group of Russian journalists gathered in his Kremlin office to try to beat him on a tennis court or on an athletic track.

15.   He has also ordered an audit of the foundation and other nongovernmental organizations and clamped down on Russian journalists trying to cover events in Belarus.

16.   In contrast, a Russian journalist was recently punished for his frank coverage of Chechnya.

17.   In recent weeks, one Russian journalist was briefly held by kidnappers, and another has been reported missing.

18.   Lukashenko has been much more unhappy over the activities of Russian journalists than over the bad press he gets in the West.

19.   On a recent flight to Murmansk, a group of Russian journalists decided to get drunk.

20.   Russian journalists remain trapped in a bunker below a hotel next to the Government Building, where the siege is at its worst.