Translation of "Die nomenklatura" in English

That elite, the old politburo nomenclature, was united by homogenized opinions.

The nomenklatura already sensed the new wind with Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas of reform.

The Soviet workers felt deep hatred for the new nomenklatura -aristocracy.

This ensured that Laktionov was able to lead a highly successful career and mix in the highest echelons of Soviet society.

We know this system from the Soviet Union - where the nomenklatura stole the money .

If we picture the information society, without any advance preparation, impacting on our present hour-glass society, where insecurity and the downward differentiation of wages are affecting more and more groups in society, then we get the effect of a huge new proletariat which has to be entertained by 'tititainment' , as they say nowadays, a petit bourgeoisie of passive users and a new nomenklatura who hold the power and are the masters of the game.

We must therefore intervene more forcefully here so that Alexander Nikitin can finally be released and so that the accusations are dropped, because we all know that these proceedings are purely political and therefore the laws in Russia will also be infringed by these proceedings, because the old nomenclature will win again.

All in all, it would seem as if the political elite in Brussels, which is indifferent to Europe's Christian roots, has also forgotten the fate of Christians in Islamic countries.

Other aspects of the issue are the question of which political forces in Bulgaria are doing what and the fact that the political class, the nomenklatura , and the Mafia are neither able nor willing to develop their country, a phenomenon we have also encountered elsewhere.

Nor will the banning of Islamic and regionalist parties, a total gag on Parliament and the laying down of conditions for winning over the nomenklatura offer any hope of improvement.

Alleanza Nazionale believes that in the circumstances the European Union must reply with a single voice to the blackmail by the Leninist nomenklatura that governs China and that it must not only express total solidarity with those Member States threatened with trade reprisals but also reconsider the various arrangements for trade with China.

The past has shown us all that, let us say, the old establishment set aside resources and created opportunities in order to keep their own media intact.

In certain areas of the economy, e.g., in agriculture, the nomenklatura system was controlled with an approval of the PUWP and by its allied parties, the United People's Party (agriculture and food production), and the Democratic Party (trade community, small enterprise, some cooperatives).

Former generals of the secret police and members of the Communist nomenklatura, untouchable in their comfortable villas and retirements, must derive great pleasure from watching today’s witch hunts and manipulation of old files for immediate political purposes.

If we want the democracy movement to succeed in Poland, the Stalinites and the members of the nomenclatura in Poland, in the Soviet Union and in Hungary must not be allowed to revive the spectre of new Eastern borders.

Our objective should be to ensure that the information society does not accentuate the differences between our regions, but rather acts as an instrument for cohesion; it should not swamp more people in the duality of our societies, but should favour social integration; it should not merely encourage financial speculation, but should encourage productive investment; it should not create new uncontrollable monopolies but should help to develop diversity and pluralism.

It can be defined as the difference between the 'notional' demand for goods that would prevail in the absence of rationing and its present constrained level.7Its size depends not only on the situation in the goods market, but also in the labour, money and capital markets.

Western public opinion takes very seriously the violations of human rights in Eastern Europe, and I do not believe that the Foreign Ministers, even if they wished, would be able to conclude the sort of agreement that the East wishes simply on the basis of what has been agreed so far.

The poor taxpayers of the socalled rich countries must still pay for the rich bosses of the socalled poor countries.

The sharp decline in output which has occurred since mid-1991 has not yet affected the labour market, as enterprises have allowed productivity to fall.

In certain areas of the economy, e.g., in agriculture, the nomenklatura system was controlled with an approval of the PUWP and by its allied parties, the United People's Party (agriculture and food production), and the Democratic Party (trade community, small enterprise, some cooperatives).

In Late Antiquity, this form of relationship was increasingly adopted in rural areas, because the Roman nomenklatura increasingly saw their vast estates (Latifundia) as their refuge and also as economically important pillars, over which they sometimes even had their own jurisdiction and fortified prisons.

After the structures of the " socialist agriculture " disintegrated after the fall of Ceausescus, the old Nomenklatura everything tried to do, in order to save for itself, which was to be still saved.

Instead I would single out four major forces of the Russian political spectrum: nationalists, communists, what is called in Russian political parlance "the party (or parties) of power," and those democrats and liberals who, at the moment, are in opposition to the government, or, at any rate, are not in the government (I refer to parties such as the Yabloko of Yavlinsky and, with some reservations, the Union of Right Forces of Gaidar, Chubais, and Nemtsov).