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Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian комиссáр (komissar), which means 'commissary'. In English, the transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively government ministers), while administrative officers are called commissaries.
A commissary is a government official charged with oversight or an ecclesiastical official who exercises in special circumstances the jurisdiction of a bishop. [1]In many countries, the term is used as an administrative or police title.
1986 Soviet draft card in Russian Stamp of a Kharkov military commissariat (in Russian), 1989, USSR Military commissariat, Arkhangelsk, Russia. A military commissariat (from Russian: военный комиссариат, shortened as военкомат, voyenkomat), is an institution that is part of military service or law enforcement mechanisms in some European countries.
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A People's Commissariat (Russian: народный комиссариат, romanized: narodnyy komissariat; Narkomat) was a structure in the Soviet state (in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in other union and autonomous republics, in the Soviet Union) from 1917–1946 which functioned as the central executive body in charge of managing a particular field of state activity or ...
Alas, we can commiserate about the frustration of stains and stuck on food. We love to cook our favorite casseroles and soups, but staining can inevitably occur and bits of food will become stuck.
Traditionally at the district level, the Superintendent of Police (SP) or Senior SP (SSP) maintains law and order by working with the District Magistrate (DM). Under the Commissioners of Police (CP) system, the state governments may or may not grant certain powers of the executive magistrate to the commissioner, contrary to the Superintendent of Police or Senior SP of a police district who ...
Committee room, designed in 1901, in Halifax Town Hall. A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization.