11.   More than one-fifth of parliamentary deputies are women.

12.   Most observers believe that the parliamentary deputies are not eager to risk their jobs and perquisites in an early election.

13.   Parliamentary deputies, pressured by the banking lobby, rejected her nomination three times before President Boris Yeltsin replaced her earlier this month.

14.   Parliamentary deputies this week were unable to set an agenda for their last session before the June elections, delaying discussion of a new securities law.

15.   That effectively gives parliamentary deputies the right to accept or reject the list of initial participants.

16.   The calls for new elections, issued Sunday by leaders of the True Path Party, which controls the largest bloc of parliamentary deputies, await approval by Parliament.

17.   Zhirinovsky got wide publicity another time when he became embroiled in a lunch line brawl with another parliamentary deputy, maintaining he was first in line.

18.   Party leaders, parliamentary deputies and senators are automatically made congress delegates.

19.   Parliamentary deputy Marie Noveska left the Social Democrats last year after acknowledging she lied about holding a doctorate in law.

20.   A former parliamentary deputy, Martusciello was runner-up in the first round in Naples.