11.   The Russian military said on Wednesday it has retaken all villages held by rebels in Dagestan, the Russian republic between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea.

12.   Their nationalities were unclear, though local residents said the fighters were from Chechnya, the secessionist Russian republic.

13.   They also travel on flights out of Ingushetia, the Russian republic west of war-ravaged Chechnya.

14.   Petrov is still believed held in Chechnya, the breakaway Russian republic that claims it is independent.

15.   A blast tore through a passenger bus on the border between two rival southern Russian republics Tuesday, injuring three women, police said.

16.   A powerful hailstorm swept through the capital of a Russian republic in the Caucasus region Thursday, killing one person and causing widespread damage, a news agency reported.

17.   A powerful radio-controlled bomb was found Friday on a road in a volatile southern Russian republic where Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin was visiting, news reports said.

18.   A shootout along the border of two restive southern Russian republics left four people dead and one wounded, a news agency reported Sunday.

19.   A U.N. human rights envoy is going to Chechnya to investigate reports of abuses in the breakaway Russian republic, the United Nations said Friday.

20.   A powerful car bomb was safely dismantled early Tuesday in Dagestan, a restive southern Russian republic bordering on rebel Chechnya, authorities reported.