11.  Putin did not travel to Severomorsk with his usual contingent of Russian news organizations.

12.  Russian evening news showed flames gushing from an upper floor of the presidential palace in Grozny.

13.  Russian news reports also mentioned another field commander, Khattab, a Jordanian of Chechen descent who is one of the leaders of the Wahhabi movement in Chechnya.

14.  Russian news services quoted officials as saying that only a few hundred people had been expected to view the big-screen broadcasts outside the Kremlin.

15.  Russian news outlets reported shortly after the disaster that debris from a foreign vessel had been spotted near the Kursk, lending credence to that theory.

16.  Russian news reports late Thursday said the gunmen had agreed to leave the building.

17.  Russian news reports said that on Wednesday one Russian military truck had been damaged by a mine and that some soldiers had been injured.

18.  Russian news reports suggested that Chubais provoked the disclosure, a charge he denied.

19.  Russian news reports suggested that the aging fleet is poorly maintained and noted that several have crashed in recent years.

20.  Security officials told Russian news services that the material was not radioactice, without identifying it.