1.   The award-winning film updates a Tolstoy tale about Russian soldiers.

2.   No one expects the Baltic states to naturalise young Russian soldiers, but army pensioners can be given citizenship.

3.   Yeltsin also appealed to Russian soldiers in the Baltic states to disobey orders to use force against civilians, prompting a furious attack on him by Gorbachev.

4.   Several incidents of harassment against Russian soldiers in July were attributed by some reports to Estonian irregular forces or forest brothers linked with the Kaitseliit.

5.   Russian Foreign and Defence Ministry spokesmen responded by insisting that Russian soldiers had remained neutral throughout the conflict.

6.   Simultaneous Polish reports said that two Polish farmers had been charged with obtaining radioactive caesium from Russian soldiers.

7.   The Russian soldier was just ahead of me.

8.   Schellenberg was firing at a series of cardboard Russian soldiers, watched by an SS sergeant-major who was obviously in charge.

9.   Also embarrassing to the government were reports that Russian soldiers fired on a convoy of Chechens fleeing the zone of combat, killing at least nine refugees.

10.   Although American officials are convinced that Mohamed fought with the rebels, there is no specific evidence that he killed Russian soldiers.