And Stanley Tucci is the humorless Homeland Security functionary who views Viktor as a procedural inconvenience.
The supreme being was the highest state security functionary of them all, the former K.G.B. colonel, Vladimir Putin.
The villain, since even the cheeriest fairy tale must have one, is an ambitious, humorless Homeland Security functionary named Frank Dixon, played with pursed lips and narrowed eyes by Stanley Tucci.
A few Jewish functionaries of the security forces were brought to court in the process of de-Stalinization.
Vollmann hops trains as a tiny act of civil disobedience, a metaphorical middle finger raised at "authority" and "security men," those government and corporate "functionaries" who unduly restrain, harass and monitor him.
A mid-level functionary in China's state security apparatus puts it candidly: "You know all those problems with society that you like to blame on China's political system?
Riots soon broke out, the local offices of the secret police and party functionaries were attacked, and a police security officer was lynched.
Mr. Putin's critics have pointed out that insiders benefited along with the state, leading to the rise of a new class of ultrawealthy bureaucrats among the security service officials and former St . Petersburgcity government functionaries who moved to Moscow with Mr. Putin a decade ago.
Medisonus's current head of security Peter Thaulou had a meeting with a Lithuanian environmental agency functionary called Rasa Duksa, which initially seemed suspicious, but the meeting was a sex thing in a hotel room rather than a conspiracy thing involving plotting a new plague-related outrage.
The functionaries are here to bring all the key administrative sectors – health, education, security, taxation, banking – in line with Moscow standards.
