The Kremlin spokesman has called the allegations nonsense.

A Kremlin spokesman made a similar remark.

A Kremlin spokesman added, "The President has been deeply shaken by what has happened."

A Kremlin spokesman said tonight that the event had been two months in the making with a special studio set up in the Kremlin.

Kremlin spokesmen today repeatedly stated that reports of impeding resignation were untrue.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Kremlin spokesman, warned last week that the conflicting interpretations of the accord will not end with its signing.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Yakushkin, declined to discuss the reports.

Mr. Borodin and Kremlin spokesmen have repeatedly said the contracts were above-board.

The death toll has reached 56 in what one Kremlin spokesman said was "almost civil war."

A Kremlin spokesman told the Interfax news agency that army mountain brigades might be permanently posted in the region.