41.   Russia vowed Sunday night to punish the separatist Chechnya region unless Chechen kidnappers quickly released a high-ranking Russian officer.

42.   Russian officers believe he was probably killed in the fighting.

43.   Russian officers conceded that the move was also a precaution against rebel infiltration.

44.   Russian officers here say there is not much to decide.

45.   Russian officers say the boy was killed by accident.

46.   Russian officers say there are several reasons for their gains.

47.   Russian military officers and members of its internal security force took part in anti-terrorist exercises throughout April in southern Kyrgyzstan.

48.   Russian military officers in Abkhazia vehemently deny that there is a connection between the war and the pipeline.

49.   Russian officers assume the same is true of many of their Tajik colleagues.

50.   Russian officers are no longer boasting that they will seize the city in four days.