1.   Under Catherine II the sending abroad of budding Russian diplomats for study and experience was placed on a more formal and permanent footing than hitherto.

2.   Russian diplomats, who are representing British interests in Baghdad, have been the main source of information about the Briton and German.

3.   IRAQ has granted visas to the parents of jailed Briton Paul Ride so they can visit their son, a Russian diplomat said last night.

4.   American officials said that Powell presented the Russian ambassador a list of four or five Russian diplomats who were ordered to leave the country.

5.   American, European and Russian diplomats urged calm and restraint.

6.   Amid the evidence presented against Trofimoff at trial were six hours of videotaped conversations between him and an FBI agent posing as a Russian diplomat working for the KGB.

7.   And if that happens, French and Russian diplomats are likely to press at the United Nations and elsewhere for the lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq.

8.   And then about two years ago the Russian diplomat started working for U.S. intelligence and told the FBI a riveting story.

9.   As a result, the CIA frequently opposes American demands to force Russian diplomats to go home.

10.   Before that incident, officials discovered an eavesdropping device in a State Department conference room and expelled a Russian diplomat from the country.