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  • Until fairly recently the Latinate Russian term nomenclatura meant about the same thing as in English and other languages.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3 1993

  • His statement implies that he is among the "nomenclatura".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • gutenmorgen: His statement implies that he is among the "nomenclatura".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • By the way, Chinese bloggers have a remarkable track record of dislodging corrupt low- and middle-level Party officials from office; I have yet to hear of someone losing their place in the nomenclatura for violating norms of filial piety.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • By the way, Chinese bloggers have a remarkable track record of dislodging corrupt low - and middle-level Party officials from office; I have yet to hear of someone losing their place in the nomenclatura for violating norms of filial piety.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • By the way, Chinese bloggers have a remarkable track record of dislodging corrupt low - and middle-level Party officials from office; I have yet to hear of someone losing their place in the nomenclatura for violating norms of filial piety.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • By the way, Chinese bloggers have a remarkable track record of dislodging corrupt low - and middle-level Party officials from office; I have yet to hear of someone losing their place in the nomenclatura for violating norms of filial piety.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • By the way, Chinese bloggers have a remarkable track record of dislodging corrupt low - and middle-level Party officials from office; I have yet to hear of someone losing their place in the nomenclatura for violating norms of filial piety.

    China: Waking The Sleeping Giant The New York Review Of Books 2010

  • Yeltsin, while he established a few fragile democratic institutions, never uprooted the nomenclatura, the appointed bureaucrats who run the State.

    Big Picture Thinking and Democracy in Russia 2007

  • But they call themselves Roma, and it's insane that the Beeboids - who normally go the extra mile to defer to the nomenclatura of all cultures - whitewash these people's heritage by calling them "Romanians".

    The audacity of distraction 2009

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