presidium
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a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
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A declaration was presented to the Presidium condemning the media as co-conspirators against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in their support of Dubcek’s liberalization measures.
At the plenary session of Central Committee of CPSU held in June 1957 Zhukov has supported Khrushchev against " Anti-Party Group ", that had majority in Presidium and has voted to replace Khrushchev as First Secretary with Bulganin.
During November, the Presidium, under Husak, declared that the Czechoslovak press could not make any negative remarks about the Soviet invaders or they would risk violating the agreement they had come to at the end of August.
I won't put up a fight.sfn On October 14, 1964, the Presidium and the Central Committee each voted to accept Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices for reasons of "advanced age and ill health."
In addition to Bishop Batzing and his deputy, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, the presidium of the Synodal Path includes Thomas Sternberg, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, and Karin Kortmann, vice president of the committee.
Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 11 April 1984 until his death.