11.   Chubais and the others deny any wrongdoing over the advances from a publisher affiliated with a top bank that won recent privatization auctions of state property.

12.   Critics said the money was a thinly disguised bribe from a firm that was the winning bidder in several privatization auctions.

13.   Critics have charged that the payments, coming from a publisher affiliated with a top bank that won recent privatization auctions of state property, were thinly disguised bribes.

14.   Communists and other hard-line critics said the payments, coming from a publisher affiliated with a major bank that won recent privatization auctions, were bribes.

15.   In new excerpts published Sunday, Barros appeared to be pushing for a victory for the Opportunity-Telecom Italia group before the privatization auction.

16.   It also will be the forum for privatization auctions of government companies.

17.   Many accuse government officials of rigging privatization auctions to give away key enterprises to their cronies at unfairly low prices.

18.   Shevchenko said he had no information about the schedule for the privatization auction, but it is generally expected in the next few weeks.

19.   The advances came from a publisher affiliated with a top bank that won recent privatization auctions of state property.

20.   The document, expected to gain final approval next week, urges the government to seek the reversal of privatization auctions, which lawmakers called illegal.