“Global pundits will find endless flaws, and many a Washington apparatchik may be troubled by the election's outcome.”

“With the political journalists, the fun in reading them is trying to work out which politician, apparatchik or bureaucrat they've been speaking to.”

“President Milosevic must be reminded that the world has changed since his glorious days as a communist apparatchik.”

“When Soviet communism fell, nobody beyond a handful of military and apparat raised a hand to retrieve it.”

“There is no need of a monolithic party if the effective apparat is in general agreement, makes the same assumptions.”

“This was dominated by the party apparat and turned out to be a toothless tiger.”

“It is entirely generated by three budget-hungry heads of universities and their apparatchiks.”

“The message to our cultural apparatchiks was that the more popular the project the more official favour and the more money it would find.”

“Privatization often has involved the corrupt transfer of assets into the private hands of former communist apparatchiks.”