1.   Because Kuchma has barred the government accounting office from auditing budget revenues, the transactions are mostly exempt from scrutiny.

2.   But the Russian leader continues to face many challenges, including a crumbling banking sector, anemic budget revenues and huge wage arrears.

3.   Its recent conditions were meant to prove that Russia is getting its finances in order, and they included changes to the Russian tax code to increase budget revenue.

4.   Our total federal budget revenues are approximately one-tenth of U.S. defense spending.

5.   Russian officials said they may have to resort to massive borrowing to boost budget revenues amid worsening tax collection problems this month, the Interfax news agency said.

6.   Unlike Argentina, they said, Turkey has closely followed a prescription for overhauling its economy and generating surplus budget revenues to lower public debt.

7.   A newly created Extraordinary Commission on raising budget revenues, chaired by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, met late Tuesday.

8.   Approval of the loan is crucial for Ukraine, which is heavily in debt and chronically fails to collect the required budget revenues.

9.   Budget revenues are insufficient to cover all debt obligations, and the restructuring plan was meant to postpone some of the debt payments.

10.   Chubais said fund officials made it clear, however, that current budget revenues were not adequate.