21.   The neighboring region, Ingushetia, appeals to the U.N. for help with refugees.

22.   The thinly veiled threat came as new waves of ethnic Albanians fled torched villages to safety in neighboring regions, bearing fresh stories of massacres by Serbian troops.

23.   These waves were apparently disturbing a neighboring region of the inner ear that controls balance.

24.   They have settled in a refugee camp just inside Chechnya, near the border with the neighboring Russian region of Ingushetia.

25.   Thursday, Russia allowed busloads of Chechen refugees to enter the neighboring region of Ingushetia.

26.   While calm now prevails among the large Albanian populations in the neighboring Kosovo region of Serbia and in Macedonia, prolonged anarchy in Albania could trigger regional violence.

27.   Overwhelmed by refugees from rebel Chechnya, the neighboring region of Ingushetia is calling on President Boris Yeltsin to negotiate an end to the devastating Chechen war.

28.   A new round of talks will be held this weekend in Makhachkala, the capital of the neighboring region of Dagestan, Russian officials said.

29.   A Reuters TV crew trying to cross a bridge over the Sunzha River from the neighboring Ingushetia region was fired on with automatic weapons.

30.   A week ago, Islamic militants crossed into neighboring Russian region of Dagestan, seizing several areas.