41.   The shipment was impounded by Russian customs officials after they found an undocumented drug in one of the containers.

42.   They have issued passports and license plates, established their own Islamic courts, and refused to recognize Russian customs or air traffic control officers.

43.   They made it through Russian customs thanks to a crooked agent, the affidavits say.

44.   United by the conflict, the population has busily discarded most Russian customs in favor of Chechen and Islamic traditions.

45.   Two affidavits in U.S. District Court say the art objects were stolen with the help of corrupt museum curators and smuggled through Russian customs.

46.   Yeltsin also replaced heads of several government agencies, and the chief of the Russian customs service.

47.   The same month Japan introduced tough regulations that made ships registered from Russia provide Russian customs declaration forms proving their catches were caught under legal quotas.

48.   Nearly half a tonne of ivory valued at several hundred thousand dollars was seized Tuesday at Moscow airport by Russian customs officers, the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets reported Wednesday.

49.   Russia and Israel will work together in a campaign to crack down on weapons trafficking, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday, citing a senior Russian customs official.

50.   The delays, Culbertson said, were caused partly by Russian customs bureaucrats and partly by difficulties in integrating complicated hardware from the United States, Russia and Europe.