1.   The Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart met to try to nail down the elusive accord.

2.   As part of an effort to cooperate in space, American astronauts are taken to Mir by the American space shuttle to work with their Russian counterparts.

3.   At a joint news conference after a two-hour meeting, Christopher and his Russian counterpart papered over their differences.

4.   Albright came to Moscow for a single day of negotiations with her Russian counterpart Yevgeny Primakov on the disputed NATO expansion plan.

5.   But a sense that major changes were brewing emerged after Secretary of State Colin Powell met his Russian counterpart in Shanghai.

6.   De Beers and their Russian counterparts are re-negotiating the contract.

7.   During a White House news conference, Bush clearly moved from reluctance to enthusiasm about signing a formal agreement with his Russian counterpart.

8.   Experts from U.S. nuclear laboratories and the Pentagon work with their Russian counterparts in ways that were unthinkable during the Cold War.

9.   French President Jacques Chirac will be in Moscow tomorrow for brief talks with his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin, officials said.

10.   For the past two years, Georgia Baptist doctors have helped train their Russian counterparts in medical techniques such as laparoscopy -- which was performed on the patient Tuesday.