Almost immediately, the Communist-led Parliament registered its displeasure by shelving plans to ratify the Start-2 treaty that would slash strategic nuclear arms.

The Communist-led Parliament, however, has declined to condemn him.

He has almost no support in the Communist-led Parliament, and the financial community is now bitterly divided over his policies.

The Communist-led Parliament has refused to approve the sale of farmland.

Schuldenfrei was then ousted from the Communist-led Parliament.

The Communist-led Parliament has often engaged in loose talk about impeachment.

His high profile as a reformer would make it hard for him to be confirmed by the Communist-led Parliament.

He did not, for example, threaten to shelve the Start-2 treaty, though its approval will almost certainly now be delayed in the Communist-led Parliament.

But the Communist-led Parliament has refused to censure Mr. Makashov.

But as Mr. Yeltsin was speaking, the Communist-led Parliament voted to postpone debating the 1998 budget bill until next month.