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In 2009, he sent an email to industry colleagues, attacking "the executive apparatchiki" who "feed off" the creativity of others "because they have none".

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2013

This time it was to involve not only mid- level apparatchiki but higher cadre as well.

From Time Magazine Archive

Either man could move to the top in the months ahead, but both will have to keep an eye on a handful of ambitious apparatchiki who were elevated to positions of new authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the Komsomol hierarchy, a professional bureaucracy of some 100,000 apparatchiki, has been affected by Moscow's tightening of control.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other apparatchiki, like Prague Party Boss Martin Vaculik, reduced themselves to apologetic jelly, went on TV to profess support of Dub?ek and to deny past errors.

From Time Magazine Archive