11.   The public distrusts all institutions and gives Congress even lower marks than the notoriously unpopular president.

12.   Their reasons for backtracking remain unclear, but most experts say they probably see greater advantage in staying clear of an unpopular government and an increasingly unpopular president.

13.   A strong Chernomyrdin could boost Yeltsin if the unpopular president runs for reelection next year.

14.   Angry citizens in Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil have helped oust unpopular presidents accused of corruption.

15.   It also marked the most serious challenge to the increasingly unpopular president and Cavallo, his economy minister.

16.   It also marked the most serious challenge to the increasingly unpopular president and his economy minister, Domingo Cavallo.

17.   The increasingly unpopular president has described the occupations as a justified protest against unfair land ownership by the descendants of colonial era white settlers.

18.   Those moves were widely seen as an effort by the unpopular president to court voters, who gave Communists and nationalists a majority in parliamentary elections last month.

19.   Yeltsin has lived largely in seclusion since resigning as an unpopular president, after a series of botched economic reforms and accusations of corruption in his administration.