51.  An air force spokesman in Moscow confirmed Russian warplanes conducted operations over the breakaway region, but refused to give any details about the targets.

52.  An armored personnel carrier struck a road mine in the breakaway region of Abkhazia on Thursday, injuring six Russian peacekeepers, officials said.

53.  At least one person was killed and several wounded in clashes with security forces near the building in Dagestan, a republic bordering the breakaway region of Chechnya.

54.  Authorities in the breakaway region of Abkhazia promised Wednesday to detain the fugitive leader of a Georgian mutiny if he tries to cross into the territory they control.

55.  Authoritarian leader Igor Smirnov easily won a third term as head of a breakaway region in eastern Moldova, according to final election results released Thursday.

56.  Boris Yeltsin on Monday studied proposals for harsher measures against Chechen rebels after the recent attack on a top Russian military commander in the breakaway region.

57.  But his fighter jets continued to buzz the breakaway region.

58.  But main fighting concentrated in the southwest of the breakaway region.

59.  Chechen authorities today found the decapitated heads of four kidnapped foreigners near a remote village after a two-month search in the breakaway region in southern Russia.

60.  Chechen authorities today found the severed heads of four kidnapped foreigners near a remote village after a two-month search in the breakaway region in southern Russia.