1.   But Chechens who have fled here into Ingushetia, a neighboring Russian republic, portray the situation as in some ways more desperate than during the earlier war.

2.   But it can be distributed only in neighboring republics, not to towns like this inside Chechnya.

3.   Fighting was also reported along the Chechen border with another neighboring republic, Ingushetia.

4.   Islamic rebels based in Chechnya have been fighting Russian troops in Dagestan, a neighboring Russian republic in the Caucasus.

5.   It can hardly achieve the Russian aims of apprehending terrorists or protecting neighboring republics from Islamist troublemakers.

6.   Relatives, anxious that Grozny might be bombed again, are taking their wounded home again or to neighboring republics.

7.   Russian officials vowed on Thursday to return the flood of refugees in a neighboring republic to Russian-controlled areas of Chechnya by the end of the year.

8.   Russian officials insist the move will improve the plight of the refugees, who have been trapped in primitive camps in the neighboring republic, Ingushetia.

9.   The report puts the blame for poor fisheries control and smuggling on Russia and two of its neighboring republics, Astrakhan and Azerbaijan.

10.   Three members of a delegation from North Ossetia, a neighboring republic, were reported Wednesday to have been kidnapped while traveling through Chechnya.