Its museum directorate, run by Elena Gagarina, daughter of the smiling cosmonaut, has recently steered to completion one of the most controversial pastiche projects in modern Moscow, Catherine II's neogothic palace at Tsaritsyno, more than two centuries after its chief architect, Vasily Bazhenov, was laid in the earth.
Smart money has it that Radio will be subsumed into the directorate run by the ambitious current head of strategy and education James Purnell, who has just been given responsibility for children's programming but has minimal programme-making experience and is also a former Labour cabinet minster.
This directorate runs two antenatal clinics and has a maternity ward which conducts about 80 deliveries per day.
It has been sharply criticised by other EU countries, including hard core members of the eurozone, for its lack of accountability and for acting like an unelected, undemocratic directorate for running Europe.
Sergei Yakovlev worked for the SVR's elite S-directorate, which runs "illegals": spies who acquire a genuine identity in a foreign country.
"We do our best, but we do not have the proper equipment to ensure the respect for these people,"said Khaled al-Tumi, head of the Zawiya's counter-illegal migration directorate, which is run by the interior ministry.
The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND), which runs the scandal-plagued Lunar House immigration office in Croydon, south London, said it was investigating the case.
Douglas R. Cooke, associate administrator of NASA's exploration systems mission directorate, which is running the commercial crew and cargo development programs, said that a draft of the human rating standards required of the commercial companies the same 1-in-1,000 chance of a fatal accident during launching that NASA's Ares I rocket and Orion capsule sought to meet.
That's especially true for the education directorate, which is being run for the time being by Joan Ferrini-Mundy.
Roses has agreed to take charge of Glaxo's $47 million genetics directorate, which he will run from the company's U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
For example, one Abraxas expert, Mary Nayak, formerly ran the Directorate of Intelligence's South Asia group; now she's been hired as a consultant to the C.I.A.'s review group on 9/11.
