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| | politburo on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | CORRECTED: Vietnam's ruling party to admit 4 new politburo... | | | Vietnam's ruling party to admit 4 new politburo members | | | The size of the politburo in the Soviet Union varied; from 1952 until 1966 it was called the presidium. |
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| | East Germany - Politburo |
| | Meetings are chaired by General Secretary Honecker, and decisions are arrived at by a consensus vote, although certain individuals within the Politburo, particularly long-standing members, play a major or even dominant role in determining the positions and decisions of the executive body. | | | Rejuvenation of the ranks of the Politburo was clearly in progress. | | | At the Eleventh Party Congress in April 1986, there were few surprises among those elected to join the ranks of the Politburo. |
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| | Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Lenin set up the Politburo in 1917 to direct the Revolution, and following the Eighth Party Congress in 1919 it became and remained the true centre of political power in the Soviet Union. | | | Chubar relieved of duties by the Politburo decision | | | One example of the Central Committee of the CPSU overruling the Presidium (as the Politburo was known) was the defeat of the so-called Anti-Party Group in 1958. |
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| | More than half of China Politburo members retiring |
| | A 13th Politburo seat held by Xie Fei, a former party boss of the booming southern province of Guangdong who died in 1999, will be filled when the new Central Committee votes this week. | | | They are the members of the Communist Party's 22-seat Politburo -- China's most powerful men who hold a rank equivalent to vice premier or higher. | | | Li Tieying, head of China's top think-tank, has not reached retirement age at 66, but may step down because he has been a Politburo member since the 13th congress in 1987, analysts said. |
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http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/November/world/0297798BAE.html
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| | Geingob out of Politburo |
| | Geingob's failure to maintain his position on the Politburo is a further indication that his star is waning following President Nujoma's decision to move him from his position on August 27. | | | Some of the former-PM's supporters last night said his ousting from the Politburo amounted to backstabbing by his party colleagues who did not appreciate his services to the party for the past 40 years. | | | He gained 33 votes, while the last person to be elected on to the 17-strong body received 35 votes. |
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http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/september/national/0284F8E88C.html
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| | ipedia.com: Li Peng Article |
| | After Li was elected member of the CPC Central Committee at the Twelfth CPC National Congress in 1982, he rose to the Politburo and the Party Secretariat in 1985, and the standing committee of the Politburo in 1987, when he also became acting premier. | | | The current Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China member Luo Gan, is considered to be his protégé. | | | October, 1928) was the Chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1998 to 2003 and was second ranking in the Communist Party of China behind Jiang Zemin on the Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC until 2002. |
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| | Politburo -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The Politburo until July 1990 exercised supreme control over the Soviet government; in 1990 the Politburo was enlarged and was separated to a certain degree from control over the Soviet government. | | | Because the party secretariat planned the agenda, provided all documentation for debate, and transmitted Politburo decisions to the lower echelons, the general secretary of the Communist Party (Stalin) became the Politburo's most influential member. | | | (1881–1969), Soviet military and political leader, born in Verkhneye, Ukraine; head of state after death of Joseph Stalin; became member of Politburo 1926; marshal of the Soviet Union 1935; appointed to committee for state defense 1941; supervised establishment of Communist regime in Hungary 1945–47; chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet 1953–60. |
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| | Global Beat: North Korea's Most Influential Leaders |
| | Associate member or the Politburo and vice chairman of the Presidium or the Supreme People's Assembly. | | | Member of the Politburo and chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly. | | | Member of Politburo and honorary vice chairman of the Presidium or the Supreme People's Assembly. |
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| | Politburo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Politburo is the executive organization for a number of political parties, most notably for Communist Parties. | | | Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, in the Soviet Union | | | In Trotskyist parties, the Politburo is a bureau of the Central Committee tasked with taking day-to-day political decisions, which must later be ratified by the Central Committee. |
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| | Cox Report - May 25, 1999 |
| | The Communist Party Secretariat officially serves as staff support to the Politburo and oversees the implementation of Politburo decisions by State bureaucracies. | | | In addition to the CCP Politburos control of the PRC government and military, there are hundreds of similar connections between lower-level Communist Party officials and the State, military, and commercial bureaucracies in the PRC. | | | Involvement by the entire Politburo in specific decisions normally occurs when there are major policy shifts, crises need to be addressed, or formal legitimization of a particular policy is necessary. |
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| | I. Government and Politics of Russia, PS 156A |
| | nominated by Politburo and elected in a one-candidate election (until 1989) by the regional committee under threat of sanction for "splittism" should the committee reject the nominee | | | all Central Committee members were nominees of the Politburo elected by the Party Congress, in which delegates from the regional organizations ordinarily met every five years | | | as body nominating that single slate, Politburo appointed is own nominees |
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News |
| | As Harkishen Singh Surjeet, outgoing chief, retained as Politburo member in view of his vast experience, looked on, delegates attending the 18th party congress raised slogans heralding the arrival of a new era in a party that was set up in 1964 but traces its origins to the 1920s. | | | The new Politburo comprises Harkishen Singh Surjeet, Jyoti Basu, Prakash Karat, V.S. Achuthanandan, S. Ramachandran Pillai, Sitaram Yechury, R. Umanath, M.K. Pandhe, Biman Basu, Anil Biswas, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, Pinarayi Vijayan and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. | | | The four new members elected to the Politburo are Chittabrata Majumdar, K. Varadarajan, B.V. Raghavulu and Brinda Karat. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050412/main2.htm
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| | Association for Asia Research- Jiang Zemin's influence |
| | In the fall 2002, Zhu for the first time ever praised Weng at a standing politburo meeting and hinted that Weng would be the most ideal candidate as the next State Councils Premier. | | | Among the 16th politburo members, 10 are from the 15th CCP Congress; 8 are politburo members and 2 are the politburos supplementary members. | | | When the CCPs standing politburo decided to disallow the younger generation to enter the CCPs highest decision-making circle, Li Changchuns entry to the standing politburo was already a forgone conclusion. |
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| | Soviet-Empire.com - Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich |
| | In one particularly cruel move, Politburo member Viktor Grishin dragged the deathly ill Chernenko from his hospital bed to a ballot box to vote in the elections. | | | Jobs held: Border Guard, Party Secretary of Border Guard Unit, Agitprop director in Krasnoyarsk and other regions, Party Clerk, Central Committee member and secretary, Politburo member, Supreme Soviet Presidium Member, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, General Secretary of the CPSU. | | | By now the Politburo was affixing a facsimile of his signature to all letters, like Chernenko had done with Andropov's when he was dying. |
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| | USSR: Communist Party: Politburo |
| | The election of the Politburo by the Central Committee became purely nominal procedure. | | | Apparently, Stalin planned major changes in the structure of the party highest bodies, but his death (5 Mar 1953) allowed his successors to return to the old scheme and the Presidium assumed the same functions as Politburo. | | | The 23rd party congress amended the charter and re-established the Politburo. |
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| | USSR: Communist Party: 1966-1991 (Politburo) |
| | Politburo elected by the Central Committee: Burokyavichus, Gumbaridze, Gorbachev, Gurenko, Dzasokhov, Ivashko, Karimov, Luchinsky, Masaliyev, Makhkamov, Movsisyan, Mutalibov, Nazarbayev, Niyazov, Polozkov, Prokofyev, Rubiks, Semyonova, Sillari, Ye.Sokolov, Stroyev, Frolov, Shenin and Yanayev [1] | | | The 28th Congress of the CPSU changed the party charter including procedures for election of the Politburo. | | | Politburo elected by the Central Committee: full members - Brezhnev, Voronov, Kirilenko, Kosygin, Mazurov, Pelshe, Podgorny, Polyansky, Suslov, Shelepin, Shelest; candidate members - Grishin, Demichev, Kunayev, Masherov, Mzhavanadze, Rashidov, Ustinov, Shcherbitsky |
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| | Kyodo World News Service: CORRECTED: Vietnam's ruling party to admit 4 new politburo...@ HighBeam Research |
| | CORRECTED: Vietnam's ruling party to admit 4 new politburo... | | | HANOI, April 18 (Kyodo) -- The ruling Vietnamese Communist Party has named four new members to the politburo while seven politburo members will step down in a reshuffling expected to be endorsed at this week's party congress, a Communist Party source said Tuesday. | | | The new streamlined politburo will consist of 15 members, instead of 18 at present. |
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| | Zimbabwe News :: Zim Observer News Network |
| | INFORMATION and Publicity minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo is today likely to be arraigned before a politburo-appointed investigation committee that was mandated to probe his conduct following vitriolic attacks on senior party officials. | | | Nathan Shamuyarira, Zanu PFs information and publicity secretary, said it was taboo for him and other party and politburo members to discuss the goings-on in the politburo to members of the public as this action had far-reaching effects. | | | Politburo and other high-ranking officials were yesterday mum on the issue, with some arguing that politburo discussions were for the politburo alone and not for public consumption. |
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| | Poland, Soviet Archives |
| | Politburo: visit of polish government delegation to USSR and a verbal message from Brezhnev to Jaruzelsky | | | Politburo: meeting with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs | | | Politburo: Results of meeting with delegation of Poland |
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| | Expatica's German news in English: GDR Politburo members in retrial |
| | Friday's proceedings before Berlin State Court Judge Gabriele Strobel come just two months after the same judge convicted a third former Politburo member in a retrial on the same charges. | | | At issue is the two officials' role as members of the Politburo in the mid-1980s, during which time they voted in favour of shoot-to-kill regulations along the border to West Germany. | | | Haeber, 73, argued that he attempted to work from within to reform the Communist regime and that his pro-reform stance was the reason he was ousted from the Politburo in late 1985 and sent to a psychiatric clinic. |
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| | The next Politburo meeting is on March 1 at 7:00 pm in 236 Evans. | | | Politburo and other CSUA staff are encouraged to sign up for office hours. | | | Minutes of the Politburo meeting 02/22/93 The meeting was called to order at 7:20 pm. |
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| | The CPSU Politburo and its Commissions under Brezhnev: Decision Making in the Cases of Afghanistan and Poland |
| | The CPSU Politburo and its Commissions under Brezhnev: Decision Making in the Cases of Afghanistan and Poland | | | A Politburo commission addressed to this issue had been organized as early as August, 1980. | | | It is noteworthy that in April, 1981 the Poland commission made a suggestion to the Politburo to utilize the fear harbored by "reactionaries" in Poland and by "international imperialism" that the USSR might appeal to force to resolve the problem. |
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| | CNN.com - Jiang plans to trim Politburo - Nov. 7, 2002 |
| | While in theory new Central Committee or Politburo members are voted into office by the 2010 delegates, much depends on behind-the-scenes maneuvers by party leaders such as Jiang. | | | The analysts said the proportion of Jiang protégés in the Politburo would be enhanced if its membership were to shrink from the usual 21 to 17. | | | The line-up for major bodies including the Central Committee and the Politburo will be decided at the 16th party Congress, which opens in Beijing on Friday. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/06/china.politburo
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| | The List |
| | Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, Politburo | | | Sergei Mironovich Kirov (Active in Party from Civil War, Politburo | | | Affairs and Minister for National Defense during 1950's, became |
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| | Jyoti Basu wants to quit Politburo |
| | The nonagenarian former Chief Minister of West Bengal said he would submit his views of stepping down from the Politburo at the party Congress beginning on April 6. | | | Meanwhile, CPI(M) state secretary and another Politburo member Anil Biswas indicated that Basu's desire might not be entertained at the party conclave. | | | However, he would attend the party Congress in April. |
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| | Financial Express: Jyoti Basu leaves decision to politburo |
| | According to political observers, it would be difficult for the Congress to oppose Basu's name for the PM's post if the politburo cleared it. | | | Financial Express: Jyoti Basu leaves decision to politburo | | | CPI(M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet was more circumspect in his remark. |
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| | Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War |
| | The Politburo discussions show that the Soviet leaders were very reluctant to send troops, and responded to the Afghan requests with shipments of military equipment, but not troops, throughout the spring and summer of 1979. | | | The Politburo sessions of January 17 and 28, 1980 carried extensive discussions of the situation in Afghanistan. | | | At the Politburo session of October 17, 1985, General Secretary Gorbachev proposed to make a final decision on Afghanistan and quoted from citizens letters regarding the dissatisfaction in the country with the Soviet actions in Afghanistan. |
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| | 11th August: Politburo, From the Wreckage, Monsta, Rogue State @ The Roadhouse, Manchester | | | 5th March: Politburo, Geiger @ The White Room, The White Hart, Sankey St, Warrington (tbc) | | | Press coverage: John Robb has included Politburo in his In The City roundup for Playlouder. |
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