41.   Oleg Lobov, a Yeltsin crony since the days when Yeltsin was the party boss in Sverdlovsk, was demoted from first deputy prime minister to deputy prime minister.

42.   Oleg Soskovets, first deputy chairman of the government of the Russian Federation.

43.   Principi is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as the first deputy secretary of veterans affairs and acting secretary under President George Bush.

44.   Powers was his first deputy mayor, Paul Crotty his corporation counsel, Howard Wilson his commissioner of investigation.

45.   Politicians ranging from the ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky to the new first deputy prime minister, Boris Nemtsov, lavished her with flowers and praise.

46.   Potanin became a first deputy prime minister last year but returned to Uneximbank after one of many Cabinet shake-ups.

47.   Previously he was one of two first deputy prime ministers with Anatoly Chubais, who was dismissed last month along with Chernomyrdin.

48.   Primakov, his first deputy Yuri Maslyukov and the new Central Bank president Viktor Gerashchenko had not been eager for jobs in the Russian cabinet.

49.   Putin on Monday also demoted Nikolai Aksyonenko, a former first deputy prime minister closely tied to financier Boris Berezovsky, another Kremlin insider and master intriguer.

50.   Potanin, who said Thursday he would probably resign from Oneximbank, is one of three first deputy prime ministers who will report to Chernomyrdin.