1.   The government has also announced the setting up of a special commission to coordinate the activities of Russian ministries and organizations in protecting the ozone layer.

2.   But things went from bad to worse when he was detained at the request of Interpol and the Russian interior ministry.

3.   Russian interior ministry troops, meanwhile, have surrounded the palace area.

4.   The Russian foreign ministry warned that the U.S. strikes could lead to an escalation of violence.

5.   The Russian foreign ministry, for its part, denies that it is taking a go-slow approach.

6.   The Russian foreign ministry said the cargo plane was headed for Slovakia.

7.   The Russian ministries pushing the reactor sale insist that they can ensure tight enough inspections to make a bomb impractical.

8.   The Russian ministry boasted that it had obtained two similar U.S.-made computers, and so far Russian authorities have refused U.S. requests to return those machines.

9.   Posuvalyuk, a former Soviet ambassador to Iraq, has previously served as head of the Middle East department in the Russian foreign ministry.

10.   A Russian foreign ministry official, Igor Ivanov, said that Russia would contribute troops to any multinational force that would be needed to oversee the cease-fire.