21.  The Russian service module will be launched in July, not in April as earlier planned, he said.

22.  The survey conducted by the All-Russia Opinion Research Center, the most respected Russian polling service.

23.  Yandarbiyev said he was convinced that the Russian special services were behind the bombing and accused them of fomenting tension between Maskhadov and his opponents in Chechnya.

24.  He was recalled to Moscow and subsequently fired from the Russian diplomatic service as Russian authorities began their own criminal investigation.

25.  Helicopters from the Russian emergency services ministry use the base to unload food and medical shipments earmarked for civilians in Chechnya.

26.  The source said Russian special services were given information that terrorist attacks were being planned against Russian leaders and their families, though the source gave no other details.

27.  Unseasonal warm spells that caused rivers to break their banks and record low temperatures and snowstorms that paralysed transport had Russian emergency services stretched to their limits Thursday.

28.  Obukhov himself said he was discovered after someone told the Russian services that a diplomat who wrote detective stories had worked for Britain.

29.  Police say that Puchik, who was dressed in his uniform, was shot in the head with a Makarov pistol, the Russian service weapon.

30.  Russian special services had already contacted the Estonian authorities, Baltic News Service said quoting the FSK.