21.   The International Monetary Fund has been urging the former Soviet republic to free bread prices as part of free-market reforms.

22.   The shortage reached its peak Sunday after bakery owners went on strike to protest government orders to reduce bread prices despite an increase in the cost of wheat.

23.   The trouble started when bakeries went on strike after the government ordered cuts in bread prices without an accompanying cut in costs for wheat.

24.   The village is in suburban Kerak, where stone-throwing demonstrators smashed government cars, burned public and private buildings to protest the doubling of bread prices.

25.   Three days of violent demonstrations broke out in August shortly after bread prices were doubled in economic reforms supervised by the International Monetary Fund.

26.   To keep bread prices low, Sofiyanski said Bulgaria should try to arrange to defer payment on at least part of any wheat it imports.

27.   Two Socialist ministers resigned in January after their government was implicated in tolerating illegal grain exports that caused shortages and an increase in bread prices.

28.   Wheat shortages have resulted in drastic hikes of bread prices, fueling mass street protests that forced the Socialists to agree to early elections.

29.   Zaveryukha said he did not expect the poor harvest to result in higher bread prices, saying the government may subsidize bread if grain prices soar.

30.   Homsi called for all detainees to be set free, bread prices to be rolled back and for the dismissal of the government.