Sentence examples for presidium in from inspiring English sources

Kosygin was demoted to an alternate member when the Politburo was reorganized as the Presidium in October 1952.

At a meeting of the Central Committee's presidium in 1963, Khrushchev pleaded, "Let's... figure out a solution so that we produce radio sets that work only for the reception of our stations".

Although he was excluded from the party's Presidium in April 1966, he remained a member of the Central Committee and continued to be honoured as a high official at public ceremonies.

He suffered a temporary reversal when Stalin died, and was dismissed from the Presidium in 1953.

Khrushchev saw that with the Presidium in conflict, the Party and its Central Committee might again become powerful.

Beginning in February 1954, Khrushchev replaced Malenkov in the seat of honor at Presidium meetings; in June, Malenkov ceased to head the list of Presidium members, which was thereafter organized in alphabetical order.

He finally decided, in consultation with his advisers on the plane and Presidium members in Moscow, to demand an apology from Eisenhower and a promise that there would be no further U-2 flights in Soviet airspace.

On 31 October, the day the bombing of Egypt began, the Soviet presidium met in secret and agreed to smash the nationalist rising.

On Oct. 23, 1980, Brezhnev, by then chairman of the Presidium and, in effect, president of the Soviet Union, announced Kosygin's retirement because of ill health.

When the weeklies Reporter and Politika responded harshly to this threat, even going so far as to not so subtly criticize the Presidium itself in Politika, the government banned Reporter for a month, suspended Politika indefinitely, and prohibited any political programs from appearing on the radio or television.

In this fairly short span, he managed to provoke two major international crises; survive a coup (a second toppled him); order two disastrous economic overhauls; and hold erratic confrontations with nearly everyone in sight — with the Chinese leadership, with Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, with the neo-Stalinists in his Presidium and the Russian intellectuals in his midst.