Sources say a young PLA star is heavily favoured to become the top political commissar of the Western Theatre Command, which oversees the restive regions of Xinjiang and Tibet and handles border ...

LONDON—The Gomidas Institute has announced the publication of Catholicos and Commissar: The Armenian Church Under the Soviet ...

Then the commissar thrust some papers at her to sign as acknowledgment of ownership—letters to her dead Russian husband, copies of her own stories, a book by Chinese Communist Mao Tse-tung.

China’s Central Military Commission upgraded the political status of the political commissar of the Armed Police Corps of the Tibet Autonomous Region, indicating the central government’s ...

Mikhail Fotin, military commissar near Moscow, said [in a video - ed.] that next year the term of service in the army will be increased by one and a half, and then by two. After that, he said that the ...

The positive turn gave the city’s Commissar Li Qiang enough confidence to begin loosening some of the government’s stranglehold on movement, work and daily lives in the city of 25 million ...

The event, held on August 8, featured Commissar Rendani Munyai, a central command team member, who reminded the young women of the value they carry. “I am a woman, not because I am a woman, but ...

On December 23, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China appointed Chen Hui as the new Political Commissar of the Army, promoting him to General. However, the absence of ...

A military commissar from the Russia-occupied peninsula of Crimea was prosecuted in Ukraine for the first time. Konstantin Kacharov was sentenced to 11 years in prison in absentia for forcing the ...

If ever there was a round peg in a Soviet round hole, it was Nikolai Baibakov, who served as commissar for the oil industry under Joseph Stalin and was later in charge of general economic planning ...

Yezhov was commissar of water transport. You know, it's stuff like this that really causes me to get infuriated when people compare the Bush administration to Big Brother in 1984.