apparatchik

As a Communist apparatchik, he must side with the party.

His last job was as an apparatchik in a factory.

But let's leave it to some apparatchiks to decide, they know how to run the world.

It is also very hard for apparatchiks at the grassroots of the party to understand.

The key date for seasoned party apparatchiks, however, is today.

Those who could afford to soon moved beyond apparatchik style, with mixed results.

Now I am better able to understand how people there may feel as their system and its apparatchiks are whisked out the door.

Every minister is surrounded by the apparatchiks of the Communist days.

"All this planning for the traverse has turned me into an apparatchik."

From 1945 he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia.

He is beginning to shed his image as a bland apparatchik.

Didn't the Russians used to call this kind of guy an apparatchik?

It's that he's the last thing Russia needs right now: a mediocre apparatchik.

That is the quiet news from the party congress, even as the apparatchiks posture and pose.

Well, some of the apparatchiks are acting that way.

Even then it had to overcome vigorous resistance from its own apparatchiks.

But at least in this case, they found a common bond: bashing party apparatchiks.

His father fit easily into the cinematic image of a Party apparatchik.

While some of these shameless apparatchiks are still in place, expect no progress.

The corporate state is more than a way for Putin apparatchiks to get rich - although it's certainly that too.

Soviet apparatchiks never learned how to make a buck.

Corruption, of course, continued, along with the usual apparatchik capitalism.

The people who staff them are not Soviet apparatchiks but programmers and physicists.

However, I should like to make an appeal to the Council apparatchiks.

Instead he was as petty as any local Party apparatchik.