1.   Bush indicated Tuesday that he was frustrated by the length of the confirmation debate.

2.   The Duma is scheduled to begin the confirmation debate on Monday.

3.   A confirmation debate is scheduled for Friday, but Communists are threatening to drag out the process.

4.   A confirmation debate is scheduled for Friday, but the Communists are threatening to drag out the process.

5.   A confirmation debate on Kiriyenko was scheduled Friday in parliament, but the Communists said there may not be a vote.

6.   During the confirmation debate Wednesday, Mohajerani was confronted with the question of whether he could kill British author Salman Rushdie.

7.   Putin also met with Duma speaker Gennady Seleznyov, a Communist who will preside over the confirmation debate next week.

8.   He said he had been angered in the past when Democrats, spurred by political motives, injected politics into confirmation debates.