21.   Traders from across the Amur River in China find a brisk market in this Russian border town.

22.   When Russian border guards refused the foreigners access to the boat, the Global Mariner crew hopped a fence to check on their comrades.

23.   Plans call for Fossett to reach the coast of Portugal or Spain on Friday, and the Russian border by Saturday.

24.   Rebel leaders say the Tajik army and Russian border guards provoked the fighting by moving hundreds of troops into the mountains in violation of the cease-fire.

25.   -- A Russian border guard commander criticized Japan for encouraging poachers, Itar-Tass news agency reported.

26.   A bomb blast outside a Russian border guards headquarters wounded two Russian soldiers today, officials said.

27.   A Chinese frog poacher who was wounded and captured after a shootout with Russian border guards has escaped from custody, a news agency reported Friday.

28.   A cousin living in Kazakhstan, near the Russian border, saw the broadcast and recognized his relative.

29.   A cousin living near the Russian border in Kazakhstan saw it and recognized his relative.

30.   A man smuggling heroin from Afghanistan into Tajikistan was killed by Russian border guards Wednesday in the second major drug seizure in two days, the border guards said.