1.   Although Russian law requires media to openly label advertising, illicitly publishing paid-for articles is a widely known practice among Russian journalists and advertising agencies.

2.   A crusading Russian journalist was freed from a Vladivostok jail on Tuesday after a military court ruled that he had misused his office but was entitled to amnesty.

3.   A group of Russian journalists, local residents and government hotel employees was trapped in the downtown hotel basement by the siege and was running out of food.

4.   A Russian journalist joked that Karelin may have been distracted by his duties in the lower house of the Duma, the Russian parliament.

5.   A Russian journalist rescued her from at least one horrible plight.

6.   A Russian journalist asked Leach about the Versiya article and its allegations of sexual debauchery.

7.   A Russian journalist stopped by the gift shop Monday, said Jo Staton, who runs the cash register there.

8.   According to a well-informed Russian journalist, Yastrzhembsky told Zyuganov on Thursday that the president will refuse to sign the document.

9.   But some Russian journalists view the furor as part of larger confusion about the nature of democracy and private ownership of newspapers.

10.   But to Russian journalists, he sounds lukewarm at best about the Atlantic alliance.