Imagine the embarrassment if voters chose a well-known rebel in preference to a loyal New Labour apparatchik.

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He has already put Dragan Tomic, a loyal apparatchik, back as speaker of Serbia's parliament, which makes him acting president.

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He was the second of six sons fathered by a rural schoolteacher and apparatchik of the conservative Christian Democratic Party, Copei.

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It is likely to be upheld in these decisions by the Russian Constitutional Court, operating under the chairmanship of another Old Guard apparatchik, Valery Zorkin.

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His mother, a well-connected apparatchik in the municipal government, was unenthusiastic.

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Former Soviet apparatchik and current Russian Ambassador to the United States Yuli Vorontsov delivered a luncheon address intended to place Gorbachev's role (and his own) in the most flattering possible light.

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Garcia Bielsa is not a typical gray apparatchik.

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