1.   Another possibility is that Yeltsin would replace Chernomyrdin with one of his young and much more reformist first deputies, Anatoly Chubais or Boris Nemtsov.

2.   Other calls came from the Communist parliament speaker, Gennady Seleznyov, and his reformist deputy Alexander Shokhin.

3.   Reformist deputies from Montenegro, who enjoy U.S. support, did not attend the session as well as some opposition deputies from Serbia.

4.   Reformist deputies from Montenegro, who enjoy U.S. support, did not attend the session, not did some opposition deputies from Serbia.

5.   Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation Monday of his influential reformist deputy prime minister, Viktor Pinzenik, a government spokesman said.

6.   Loghmanian is one of three reformist deputies to have been given prison sentences.

7.   LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovski said the reformist deputies who went to Chechnya to secure the release of Russians were opportunists.

8.   Norouz also quoted Rajabali Mazrewi, reformist deputy and president of the PAJ, who said the police did not have the right to summon journalists.

9.   The budget was finally accepted after reformist deputy prime minister Anatoly Chubais promised more spending on agriculture, defense and social needs.

10.   The arrest of Loghmanian sparked widespread outrage among reformist deputies leading to tensions among members of the predominantly reformist parliament, with some deputies threatening to resign.