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Suspicions of foul play deepened when the opposition's second-leading figure, Yuliya Tymoshenko, a former deputy prime minister, was summoned by a Moscow prosecutor to answer questions related to charges that years ago she bribed a Russian military officer to benefit the gas firm she headed.
Indeed, Russia's military prosecutor has now issued an international arrest warrant for her, even though the officer she is accused of bribing was acquitted in a trial in Moscow last year of the very charges that prosecutors now want to question her about.
A year later, at a Cairo conference that negotiated borders in the region, he changed to a British officer’s uniform as he engaged in hard transactional bargaining.
The “action” officer was Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Time has not made the job any easier.The framers of the UN Charter gave the Secretary General two distinct functions: “chief administrative officer of the Organization” and also an independent official whom the General Assembly and Security Council can entrust with certain unspecified (but implicitly political) tasks.
Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, has done something pretty gutsy.
Last year, five MPs in the Rajya Sabha (the upper house) were suspended for charging the presiding officer’s desk, wrenching his microphone, and tearing up his papers.
Opinion polls show that the still-jailed Lula is leading the race, followed by a rabidly populist Congressman and former army officer, Jair Bolsonaro, who proposes only crude – and often vicious – solutions to Brazil’s complex problems.
Under the Japanese name of Takagi Masao, he served as an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army.
We now know that some key dates and details in the infamous “dossier” on Trump’s relations with Putin, assembled by a former British intelligence officer, have been verified.
In addition, Pakistan, in the words of chief military officer General Ashfaq Kayani, views the Taliban as “a strategic asset” in the struggle with India.
In August 1991, an attempted coup against Gorbachev failed because he had the support of young people, both on the streets of Moscow and other cities and in the tanks and junior officer corps of the Soviet Union.
Sergeant Ivan Frederick, the man directly in charge of the infamous Abu Ghraib "hard site," previously worked as a Virginia corrections officer.
The prosecution in the Czech Republic of two 78 year old men (Milos Jakes, and Jozef Lenart), both veterans of the Soviet invasion of 1968, and the four-year-long trial in Vladivostok of Grigory Pasko, a Russian naval officer, suggest the earliest stages of a cycle where injured states respond to perceptions of betrayal with charges of treason.
Instead, it was the small and highly professional Egyptian army that crushed the uprising, to the dismay of the young officer corps, who were already well advanced in their plans to seize power.
According to Jennings, a former chief financial officer of Xing, Europe’s leading social network, “We spent years trying to persuade people that they had a problem we could solve; now I am working with companies solving problems that people know they have.”
Egypt’s interior ministry claimed that Atito had been involved in the “assassination” of a police officer and was killed in a firefight with security forces during a raid on his “hideout.”
An Argentine naval officer who had resettled in Mexico under an assumed name was wanted by Spain on charges of genocide, torture, and terrorism.
The officer, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, was implicated in abuses committed in 1977 and 1978 at the notorious Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires.
To Russia's officer corps, all opponents are ipso facto the army's enemies and, by extension, enemies of Russia.
Unlike their turn-of-the-19th-century French counterparts, however, Russia's officer corps is essentially apolitical, despite decades of dictatorship.
Nevertheless, although President Putin is working to make it a more professional body than the Soviet-era mass army, the officer corps retains a Bolshevik mind-set barricaded against the intrusions of civilian criticism.
Explaining why he helped spearhead a 1993 military coup attempt, Air Force officer Muhammad Bashir Salah said, “We have neither a state, nor laws, nor a constitution.”
China’s leaders will also be interested in her thinking on Japan, particularly given the inclinations of her father, who served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Captain Ernest Medina, his commanding officer, ordered him to burn the village down and pollute its wells, but there is no clear evidence that the order included killing non-combatants – and of course if such an order were issued, it should not have been obeyed.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Warnig, who heads Dresdner Bank’s Russian arm, was an officer in the Stasi, the East German secret police, and met Putin in the late 1980’s when the Russian president was based in East Germany as a KGB spy.
Whether this response reflects personal pettiness or the uncompromising outlook of a former KGB officer, his hostility toward the West, especially the United States, is disturbing.
Accenture’s chief leadership and human resources officer recently announced that by 2025, the company’s workforce will be 50% female.
The landlord at the time -- we could communicate only in French -- was a Polish cavalry officer who led me into a living room filled with photographs of children confined with him at Auschwitz.
The old officer showed me his concentration camp tattoo and talked about his five years in the death camps of Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald.
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