11.  Just before that, according to Borovoi, Dudayev had been complaining about noise from Russian planes.

12.  Liberated East European countries dumped their Russian planes, opting for more modern and cost-efficient Airbus and Boeing jets.

13.  Noise and air pollution regulations in Europe and the United States also make Russian planes less attractive to international clients because they do not yet meet Western standards.

14.  Now, with Russian planes returning to the skies and targeting their villages, the people in eastern Chechnya were trapped.

15.  Nowhere is the fight for NATO-related contracts more heated than in the bidding war to replace Russian planes with Western-made fighter jets.

16.  On the outskirts of Grozny, Russian planes bombed a military airfield, damaging several buildings.

17.  Regular folks gather along Cobb Parkway with binoculars and cameras to see the Russian plane land.

18.  Reports from Chechnya said that Russian planes had bombed the airport at Grozny and that Russian forces had severed a key road between Chechnya and its western neighbor Ingushetia.

19.  Russian planes and helicopters have bombed villages around the edge of Grozny, but they have never penetrated to the center of town.

20.  Rumors of a Russian plane landing on the big island, presumably with mercenaries aboard, set teeth on edge.