1.   Federal action was concentrated in Slovenia in order to seal off the two breakaway republics from outside aid.

2.   And it also warned that the war in the breakaway republic could start up again.

3.   As Moscow brandished its threats, representatives of the Russian government were evacuated by convoy from the breakaway Caucasus republic.

4.   Aslan Maskhadov, president of the breakaway Chechen republic before the intervention, has condemned him as a traitor.

5.   A limited operation to seal the borders of the breakaway republic, and to occupy the pro-Russian parts, had been planned for months.

6.   Across Chechnya, Russian troops tried on Thursday to tighten their grip over the breakaway republic, in the throes of its second war in a decade.

7.   But at the same time, he reiterated that the breakaway republic was part of Russia.

8.   But Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister of the breakaway Chechen republic, said that no one in the Chechen government had heard of the commander.

9.   Certainly most Russians still consider the military operation a long-overdue effort to bring order to the breakaway republic.

10.   Developments in Chechnya, a breakaway republic in southern Russia.