1.   Despite the tax and political concerns, the appetite for Brazilian state assets still appears healthy, judging from the results of a privatization auction conducted here today.

2.   Indeed, Gusinsky was not one of the oligarchs who acquired oil fields, refineries, or metallurgical factories at rigged privatization auctions.

3.   On Monday, he ordered a delay in issuing the results of a privatization auction involving a minerals company that is another hotly contested state property.

4.   Western creditors have wanted to know if they could use these bonds to pay taxes or buy state property in privatization auctions.

5.   Yeltsin also ordered a delay in issuing the results of a privatization auction involving Nirilsk Nickel, a state-owned metals company.

6.   Potanin said the group will likely compete in upcoming privatization auctions, including for the oil company Rosneft and the telecommunications holding company Svyazinvest.

7.   A number of major international oil companies are expected to participate in the upcoming privatization auctions.

8.   Chubais blamed the attack on financial groups which lost out to Oneximbank in recent privatization auctions.

9.   Chubais earlier blamed the attacks in parliament on financial groups that lost out to Oneximbank in recent privatization auctions.

10.   Chubais blamed the attack on financial groups that lost out to Oneximbank in recent privatization auctions.