apparatchik

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Cuba’s government is still dominated by Raúl Castro, 94 years old, the younger brother of Fidel, while President Miguel Díaz-Canel, 65, an unpopular apparatchik, runs day-to-day affairs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Like Ben Houchen on Teesside, Andy Street had campaigned as his own man, not a party apparatchik.

From BBC • May 4, 2024

Mr. Adani said he had first met Mr. Modi some 30 years ago when the future prime minister, a fellow Gujarati, was a fiery apparatchik in a right-wing Hindu fraternal organization known as the R.S.S.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

What, then, was this formerly shameless apparatchik attempting to rehabilitate?

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2021

Park said he lost his position as head of taekwondo training in Pyongyang in 2002, after squabbling with a midlevel apparatchik who apparently snitched on him to higher-ups in the government.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden