| Ninotchka is a Russian commissar who has come to Paris to sell jewellery belonging to a grand duchess. |
| He gave his commissar of enlightenment, Anatoly V. Lunarcharsky, two weeks to work out the details. |
| On 25 November 1938, Stalin appointed Lavrenty Beria people's commissar of internal affairs. |
| The team was enjoying a little capitalist indulgence under the watchful eye of their commissar. |
| Nor did enough Ugandans feel inspired by an opposition leader who once served as Mr Museveni's personal surgeon and political commissar. |
| Under the able leadership of the old Bolshevik A.P. Smirnov, the commissar of agriculture, expertise and science were privileged over politics. |
