1.   ...the defection of at least sixteen Parliamentary deputies.

2.   Liberal Club supporters protested that these moves would call into question the mandate of elected Civic Forum parliamentary deputies, and would thereby provoke a constitutional crisis.

3.   Six parliamentary deputies faced criminal prosecution once their parliamentary immunity had been removed.

4.   Avramovic remained at his office at the central bank in Belgrade after reports that parliamentary deputies Wednesday voted to dismiss him.

5.   A parliamentary deputy from the left-leaning Agrarian party, Gennady Kulik has been tapped for the agricultural portfolio.

6.   After Bokros announced his resignation, several opposition parliamentary deputies said now is a good time to increase social spending.

7.   But his prospects declined after he was shown on nationwide television this summer roughing up a woman parliamentary deputy during an unruly debate.

8.   But in September Zhirinovsky took outrage too far when he shoved and pulled the hair of a woman parliamentary deputy on the floor of the Duma.

9.   Gonchar, a dogged parliamentary deputy from Moscow, is also not satisfied.