1.   The USD deputies boycotted the vote, in which Snezhana Botusharova of the UDF and Kadir Dzhalil Kadir of the MRF were elected deputy speakers.

2.   A deputy speaker of parliament and leader of the pro-market Union of Right Forces party, Khakamada supports Putin, especially for his commitment to economic reform.

3.   Alex DeCroce, deputy speaker of the New Jersey assembly, said he urged Bush to run because he has a proven record of electability.

4.   Had the coalition parties yielded and drawn a deputy speaker from the opposition in the first place, the scenario might have been different.

5.   He now travels the province with Seamus Mallon, the deputy speaker and a Catholic, by his side in an expression of cooperation.

6.   Hume, whose party is the second biggest in the province, will probably be the deputy speaker.

7.   Irina Khakamada, deputy speaker of the Duma, said restoring the Soviet hymn was an insult to millions whose relatives died in Soviet purges.

8.   Sirideghyan said people in the crowd had beat the speaker of Parliament and the deputy speaker, but this could not be confirmed.

9.   The document laid out a plan to brand deputy parliamentary speaker Petra Buzkova as a child abuser and former prostitute.

10.   There were female guerrilla commanders in the war for independence, and the deputy speaker of Parliament, several Cabinet ministers and many judges and executives are women.