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The forceful Mr Chubais has told the Duma it must accept cuts in public spending.

While the president and his government can bring in economic reforms over the head of the Duma, it cannot enact legal reform without the assent of the legislature.

But as long as the Kremlin keeps 300 votes in the Duma, it can override any changes that the Federation Council might attempt.

Unlike the present Duma, it may become worthy of an expanded constitutional role, and count as a force for stability in Russia, rather than, as till now, a force for instability.Now for the bad newsUnfortunately, set against these political gains from Mr Yeltsin's second term, there is a large debit.

Zakharov hopes that the academy membership would use the meeting to adopt its own version of the draft law and present it to the Duma before it casts the third and final vote for the law.

But it may not when it eventually emerges from the Duma, where it has had only a first reading.The overall tax burden in Russia is not excessive; at 31.2% of GDP in 1994, it was slightly lighter than America's and considerably lighter than most West and Central European countries'.

It needs to pass three readings in the Duma before it is moved to parliament's upper house, and then requires the signature of the president, Vladimir Putin.

In a separate statement, the OSCE's parliamentary assembly said it had notified the chairman of the Russian State Duma that it was unable to accept an invitation to monitor the elections.

It had already gained a "super-majority" in the Duma, granting it the power to pass amendments to the Russian constitution, paving the way for an extension of presidential terms from four to six years, which Putin is currently serving.

Russians began complaining about the exhibit hall as soon as it appeared last weekend, and lawmakers in the nearby State Duma denounced it as an "obscenity," RIA Novosti reported Wednesday.

Dmitry Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee of the Russian parliament, the Duma, blamed it on anti-Russian hysteria.