11.   Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and U.S. Undersecretary of State Strobe Talbott came to Bonn straight from talks in Moscow with Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin.

12.   Holbrooke, Bildt and Russian mediator Igor Ivanov left Moscow on Tuesday evening for Belgrade and Sarajevo.

13.   Hours later, a special Russian mediator began talks in hopes of finding a peaceful solution to the escalating conflict.

14.   Hours later, a special Russian mediator began talks aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the escalating conflict.

15.   Hours later, a special Russian mediator met with the Yugoslav president but a statement afterward gave no sign a breakthrough was imminent.

16.   Meanwhile, a Russian mediator claimed Yugoslavia was willing to accept an international military force in Kosovo as part of a peace agreement.

17.   No, this is not common place, if one understands how very little Slobodan Milosevic conceded yesterday to Russian mediator Yevgeny Primakov.

18.   No new talks were immediately set as governments weigh the next steps in Kosovo diplomacy after the latest trip to Belgrade by Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin, officials said.

19.   Russia welcomed the start of peace talks Saturday on the conflict in the separatist Yugoslav province of Kosovo, talks that included a Russian mediator.

20.   Russian mediator consults with former Soviet republics.