31.   Still, budget committee chairman Vladimir Tarachyov expressed confidence that the budget would go through.

32.   The budget now goes to President Boris Yeltsin, who is expected to sign it into law.

33.   The budget now goes to the Senate for final approval, which is expected Monday.

34.   The budget goes into immediate effect.

35.   The budget now goes to the upper house, the Federation Council, where it is expected to pass within a month.

36.   The budget must go through four readings.

37.   The draft budget would now go to parliament where its adoption is not likely to run into trouble.

38.   The draft budget will go to parliament for approval later this year and may be revised.

39.   In the meantime, a stopgap budget is going through parliament, but the formal budget is unlikely to be approved before mid-April.

40.   To become law however the budget must go to parliament, where the left made up of communists, socialists and the Agrarian Party forms the most powerful faction.