1.   American officials also said they hoped the Russian special envoy to the Balkans, Victor Chernomyrdin, would continue in his role as a shuttle diplomat with Belgrade.

2.   As the administration worked at holding its Kosovo policy together, the Russian envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, arrived in Beijing to talk to Chinese officials about Kosovo.

3.   A senior Russian envoy has been in Baghdad floating compromise proposals on inspections that have been rejected by both the United States and Iraq.

4.   A Russian envoy, Vitaly Churkin, held talks on Friday with the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic.

5.   A special Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East was sent to Baghdad this week to hold his own meetings with Iraqi leaders.

6.   After Chernomyrdin, the Russian special envoy, returned from his mission to Belgrade with the Finnish president, Gen. Ivanshov assailed the accord as a sellout.

7.   After the Russian special envoy, Victor Chernomyrdin, returned from his mission to Belgrade with the Finnish president, Ivashov assailed the accord as a sellout.

8.   But in Moscow, Victor Chermomyrdin, the Russian envoy who helped broker the peace deal, said Saturday no Russian peacekeepers would be under NATO command.

9.   But the Russian envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, is expected to go to Belgrade in the coming days.

10.   But the Russian envoy did not come and the announcement the next day was downplayed, while being dismissed in the West.