1.   He vowed to end wage delays.

2.   With tax revenues lagging behind expectations, experts say, Russia may face further wage delays, decisions to print more money and rising inflation.

3.   A crowd of miners in a small town in eastern Siberia broke into the local government office Thursday to protest wage delays.

4.   Ailing enterprises across the country are plagued by wage delays, and workers have staged scattered strikes ahead of the election.

5.   Aides said Yeltsin has been swamped by letters from state employees complaining of months-long wage delays.

6.   Aides say Yeltsin has been swamped by letters and telegrams from miners and other state employees complaining of wage delays, which in some cases last for months.

7.   Belarus is wracked by wage delays and plunging production, and Lukashenko has alienated international lenders by his anti-reform policies.

8.   But many ordinary Russians have suffered a sharp drop in their living standards and from wage delays.

9.   Desperate over long wage delays, two Russian naval officers have committed suicide, a news agency said Tuesday.

10.   Economics Minister Vasil Hureyev on Wednesday blamed the wage delays on declining production and lack of budget discipline at state enterprises and tax evasion.