YAVLINSKY SAYS HE EXPECTS HIS FACTION TO JOIN GOVERNMENT.

Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky predicts that there will soon be another reshuffle in the Russian government and that Yabloko members will be invited to take senior posts. "However, we shall cooperate with the government only if there is agreement on an action program to get the country out of the economic and social crisis," Yavlinsky said. (Itar-Tass, April 12)

Acting Russian Fuel and Energy Minister Appointed.