1.   A day after he dismissed the government of Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko on Sunday and named Chernomyrdin acting premier, Yeltsin spoke to the nation in a televised address.

2.   Chernomyrdin, meanwhile, said that as acting premier he would take steps to pay back wages to the military, coal miners and students.

3.   Dini, now acting premier, is running for the Chamber of Deputies with the center-left.

4.   It was not clear who would be acting premier in the interim.

5.   Russia favors the creation of a unified European energy and energy transport system, acting premier Sergei Kiriyenko said Wednesday at an international energy summit in Moscow.

6.   The government of Mesut Yilmaz, who is now acting premier, collapsed last month in a vote of no-confidence over a mafia and corruption scandal.

7.   Without explanation, he fired the young prime minister he had fought so hard to appoint five months ago and named Chernomyrdin as acting premier in his place.

8.   Yilmaz is now acting premier.