61.   Presidential elections in Montenegro on Sunday may ultimately go beyond deciding who runs the tiny republic.

62.   President Ruslan Aushev of Ingushetia on Wednesday demanded a thorough investigation into a violent Russian commando attack on an airport in his tiny ethnic republic that borders Chechnya.

63.   Russian soldiers are massed along the border of the tiny republic in the rugged Caucasus Mountains and Russian warplanes have been flying over its capital, Grozny.

64.   Russian troops have since turned their attention to pockets of rebel resistance elsewhere in the tiny southern republic.

65.   Russian troops began pulling out Monday from two villages in Ingushetia after weekend attacks drew protests from leaders of the tiny republic, which borders on breakaway Chechnya.

66.   Roads crisscross the tiny republics of the Caucasus Mountains, often at odds or at war with each other and wary of Russia.

67.   Scattered clashes continued in the tiny southern republic.

68.   Russian troops since have turned their attention to pockets of rebel resistance elsewhere in the tiny southern republic.

69.   Separatist leaders say they already view the tiny Muslim republic as independent, but Moscow insists that Chechnya must remain part of Russia.

70.   Solana has recently offered Montenegrins an incentive to stay allied with Serbia, saying the tiny republic improves its chances of joining the EU as part of Yugoslavia.