1.   Deputies rejected one specific provision in the draft union treaty, however, which would have entailed formally renaming the country the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics.

2.   Deputies rejected that forecast, voting instead to come up with a new, higher, one.

3.   Both government and State Duma leaders expect deputies to reject the budget proposal when it comes up for a first reading Thursday.

4.   But the deputy rejected the offer.

5.   Deputies rejected an amendment aimed at speeding up the process of lifting the legal immunity of lawmakers accused of crimes such as graft.

6.   In debate before the Duma vote, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin appealed to deputies to reject the no-confidence measure.

7.   In an earlier vote, the deputies also rejected a motion by Christian Democrats that two commissioners resign.

8.   In debate before the Duma vote, Chernomyrdin appealed to deputies to reject the measure.

9.   In debate before the Duma vote, Chernomyrdin appealed to deputies to reject the no-confidence measure.

10.   Nine lawmakers were absent from the four-hour debate in which Muslim fundamentalist deputies rejected the law.