08/06/1998 17:17:29 IMF not changing size of planned Russia payment

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The International Monetary

Fund has no plans to change the size of the next scheduled

payment of its latest $11.2 billion loan to Russia, a spokesman

said on Tuesday.

"The second tranche is unchanged at 3.2 billion SDR, or

about $4.2 billion," the spokesman said. The payment, like

those for all IMF loans, will depend on Russia meeting the

conditions of a reform program agreed with the IMF, he said.