21.   Last spring, Yeltsin revamped his government, appointing young reformers Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov to key posts as first deputy premiers.

22.   Nemtsov, a young reformer recently brought into the government, argued that the burden would be eased under a program to help low-income families.

23.   Nemtsov, a young reformer, and Ikeda both chair a bilateral trade and economic commission that will meet in Tokyo in early June.

24.   Nemtsov, a young reformer, was brought to the Cabinet specifically to deal with that reform.

25.   President Boris Yeltsin on Monday named a young reformer who played an important role in his successful re-election campaign to be his new chief of staff, officials said.

26.   Reasserting his authority, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin took back responsibility for key areas of government policy from two embattled young economic reformers on Friday.

27.   Some observers had expected Chernomyrdin to offer the young reformer a Cabinet job, but Yavlinsky said their discussion was confined to the economy.

28.   The Cabinet has since been reshuffled, however, with young reformers Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov taking leading roles.

29.   The list of allies, especially young reformers, used by Yeltsin and then discarded over the last five years is long.

30.   The main candidates to succeed him as prime minister would be young reformers that many hard-liners in parliament would find more objectionable than the current administration.