41.  A landslide caused by heavy rain blocked a key highway in southern Russia on Monday, cutting access by heavy trucks to the regional capital Stavropol.

42.  A spokesman said the damage to roofs and the power station occurred in Mandalgobi, a regional capital.

43.  A sniper shot him dead, said a spokesman for the Federal Security Service in the regional capital, Stavropol.

44.  A sniper shot him dead, said Valery Kavtosenkov, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service in the regional capital, Stavropol.

45.  About a dozen Russian legislators were on hand to monitor voting Sunday in the regional capital of Tiraspol.

46.  An airline spokesman claimed no one was hurt in the incident Sunday at the airport in Yakutsk, a regional capital in Siberia.

47.  An armored personnel carrier struck a mine in the regional capital Grozny on Monday, killing three soldiers and wounding three others.

48.  An Iranian government minister, Hossein Mahloudji, raised the issue in talks with Saxony-Anhalt state officials Thursday in Magdeburg, the regional capital.

49.  As medical clinics in Kaspiisk and the regional capital Makhachkala filled up with the wounded, cars with loudspeakers rolled slowly through the towns, asking for blood donations.

50.  As she headed out of a polling place in an industrial section of Krasnoyarsk city, the regional capital, she was asked why she voted for Lebed.