MOSCOW, May 21 (AFP) - Russia's parliament on Friday allowed the government to borrow 2.4 billion dollars from the Central Bank in the second quarter of this year to pay off some of Moscow's foreign debts. The money had not been budget into the 1999 spending plan because Russia was hoping by May to receive a new financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Fund however has made any new assistance to Russia contingent on parliament first passing a raft of economic reform measures. Those bills are currently stalled in the Communist- and nationalist-controlled chamber. Acting deputy finance minister Oleg Vyugin said Russia over the first quarter borrowed some two billion dollars from the Central Bank, whose reserves currently stand at just 11.6 billion dollars, close to a three-year low. Russia plans at best to pay 9.5 billion dollars of its 17.5-billion-dollar foreign debt maturing this year. Moscow hopes the rest of its obligations will either be written off or restructured once an IMF deal is formally struck.  