Violent clashes continued in the secessionist republic of Croatia.

The rebel spokesman said negotiators were still at odds over the timing of elections in the secessionist republic.

He then dismissed the three most senior Defense Ministry officials who had been critical of the relentless war for the secessionist republic.

And one of the biggest is the Government's long, apparently futile war in Chechnya, the secessionist southern republic.

Conservative politicians have been competing with one another in expressions of enthusiasm for the secessionist republic to Austria's south.

But new fighting was reported elsewhere in the secessionist republic.

"Many countries, including some that will recognize the secessionist republics, have wanted this country to survive."

He was the highest-ranking Russian officer to die in the month-old fight for the secessionist southern republic.

The rebel soldiers of the secessionist republic have lost their cities and their plains.

It was also the first time the Russian Government has admitted attacking civilians in the secessionist republic.