More ominously for oil companies, Russian legislators are discussing whether to limit foreign participation in certain large-scale projects.

This will no doubt come as a surprise to the many Russian legislators and policymakers who have made clear that such a link indeed exists.

Russian legislators approved President Boris Yeltsin's choice for prime minister.

Among those who took the reports at face value, the reaction echoed the blunt assessment of one top Russian legislator.

Jingoistic Russian legislators, for example, have said that Russia will arm the Serbs if the arms embargo on Bosnia is lifted.

Russian legislators reacted angrily.

Also over 300 Russian legislators called the planned Congress of Ukrainian Residents a political provocation.

Russian legislators had already complained that the economic plan was far too harsh.

The Russian legislators were concerned, in particular, that Russia should resume control over its own economic destinies.

The collapse of Moscow's conventional forces has made many Russian legislators more reluctant to reduce nuclear weapons.