111.  Military chief of staff Anatoly Kvashnin told Putin that Russian forces nearly had the situation under control.

112.  Military leaders said last month that Russian forces were firmly in control of the rebel region.

113.  Maskhadov, who moved the Chechen military headquarters out of the wrecked capital, Grozny, last week, has promised a long partisan war against Russian forces.

114.  Muslim Chechen rebels who are fighting Russian forces in southern Russia have also used women suicide bombers.

115.  On Saturday, Russian forces claimed to control Minutka Square in central Grozny.

116.  On Wednesday, Russian forces stopped their convoy of buses at Pervomayskoye, just short of the Chechen border.

117.  On Wednesday the commander of Russian forces in Chechnya acknowledged that crimes had been committed and ordered his subordinate officers to cooperate in investigating them.

118.  On Thursday, with about a thousand protesters remaining, Russian forces sealed the center of the city and demanded that everyone leave the palace grounds.

119.  On Russia, McCain favors suspending international loans until Russia ends the fighting in Chechnya, where Russian forces are accused of having committed atrocities.

120.  Or would Russian forces and non-NATO forces be under different command arrangements?