41.   The Turkish coast guard rescued three Russian sailors Saturday after a mutiny by Croatian crewmen, the Anatolia news agency said.

42.   Three more Russian sailors have died of burns suffered in an accident on a Russian nuclear missile cruiser, bringing the death toll to four, officials said Tuesday.

43.   Two Russian sailors deserted their warship and sought political asylum while in Oslo for anniversary celebrations marking the end of World War II, the justice ministry said Friday.

44.   When a column of Russian sailors recently passed a Ukrainian navy officer, the first one saluted.

45.   Four Russian sailors died on the northern Japan island of Hokkaido Wednesday after their car skidded off a pier and plunged into freezing water, police said.

46.   Among the dead were three visiting Russian sailors.

47.   Two Russian sailors were killed and a third was wounded in an attack Thursday in Algiers, the government said.

48.   The day before the RUF liberated a Russian sailor, Fedor Medvedev, and a Sierra Leonean colleague the movement had been holding for several months.