21.   Thousands have been killed in the war, the worst bloodshed on Russian soil since World War II.

22.   He subsequently retreated to his stronghold of Grozny, where he told AFP he was ready to take the war on to Russian soil if talks failed.

23.   -- Banning the use of regular army troops for settling internal conflicts and allowing the army only to fight on Russian soil in case of external attack.

24.   Basayev said that if the peace talks due to resume Tuesday failed he would again take the war to Russian soil.

25.   Communists and ultra-nationalists said the drills, marking the first presence of US infantry on Russian soil, were the first stage of an invasion.

26.   The visit will be the first by a British monarch on Russian soil despite hundreds of years of relations between the one-time imperial rivals.

27.   It is the first time US infantry had been deployed on Russian soil, provoking bitter opposition from ultra-nationalists and communists.

28.   Later Tuesday, the queen, the first British monarch to set foot on Russian soil in history, was to attend a Kremlin banquet.

29.   Moscow rejected the criticism and stressed that several nuclear materials trafficking attempts have since been stopped on Russian soil.

30.   Russian law forbids any foreign funding of elections held on Russian soil.