1.   The issues of the future of the Russian submarine base at Cienfuegos and of Cuban debts to Russia were reportedly not discussed.

2.   Moscow says Georgian forces have been attacking Russian bases in the volatile Black Sea province and has vowed to retaliate if the attacks continued.

3.   Tbilisi was angered by a visit of the Russian defence minister, General Pavel Grachev, to Russian military bases in Abkhazia last month without informing the Georgian government.

4.   And a branch gas pipeline will run near Batumi, close to the other Russian base.

5.   As the fleet assembled at Kronshtadt, the Russian naval base in the Baltic, it was visited frequently by Czar Nicholas II.

6.   Besides coordinating activities at other Russian bases, Molodezhnaya was a center for glaciology, geology and life sciences.

7.   After interviewing the villagers, she went to the local Russian base to see the commanding officer, who, to her amazement, told her the truth.

8.   He was one of handful of journalists permitted to live at the Russian bases.

9.   He rushed to the Russian military base at Mozdok, in North Ossetia, the next day.