71.   Fifteen Russian peacekeepers were trapped after Bosnian soldiers disarmed them and seized their armored personnel carrier.

72.   Fifteen Russian peacekeepers were trapped at one such point after Bosnian soldiers disarmed them and seized their armored personnel carrier.

73.   For its part, the Bosnian government greatly distrusts Serbs ties to Russia and the presence of Russian peacekeepers in the country.

74.   Five Russian peacekeepers were killed and five injured Sunday night when their military transport set off a land mine in the separatist region of Abkhazia, officials said.

75.   Former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who helped broker the Kosovo peace deal, said there was no possibility that Russian peacekeepers would come under NATO command in Kosovo.

76.   For its part, the Georgian government has often accused Russian peacekeepers of backing separatists and periodically threatened to have them withdrawn.

77.   Georgia and its breakaway province Abkhazia agreed to extend the mandate of Russian peacekeepers on their border, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Tuesday.

78.   Georgia has been disappointed with the Russian peacekeepers, saying they have not done enough to allow for the safe return of ethnic Georgian refugees to Abkhazia.

79.   Georgian officials said five ethnic Georgians were kidnapped Wednesday in the village of Orsantiya, a region controlled by Russian peacekeepers.

80.   Georgia and Abkhazia, separated by Russian peacekeepers, are no longer fighting, but attempts to reach a political compromise have failed.