Event class: appointed, became, department, head, secretary, ministry, director, chief, state, deputy

Events with high posterior probability

Li Rongrong	Since 1986, he had served as vice director of economics commission of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, director of light manufacturing bureau, director of planning commission of the city, and vice director of economics planning commission of Jiangsu.
Song Defu	In 1993, Song entered the state council and became the Minister of Personnel.
Kim Yong-ju	In 1966 he was promoted to Organizing Secretary of the WPK Central Committee.
Wang Xudong	In June 2003, he was additionally appointed as the director and party chief of the Information Office of the State Council.
Li Xueju	In June 1997, when Chongqing became a direct-controlled municipality, Li was a standing committee member of CPC committee.
Alexey Nikolayevich Krutikov	He was made deputy chief of the Department of Military Colleges at the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in Moscow in 1946.
Fazil Mammadov	On June 20, 1999 Mammadov was appointed the Chairman of the Main State Tax Inspection by President Heydar Aliyev.
Chi Haotian	He was elected to the vice chairman of central military commission of CPC in September 1995, and CMC of the state in December that year.
Jiang Chunfang	In 1938, he became the Secretary-General of the Culture Subcommittee of the Communist Party's Shanghai Bureau ().
Elaine Brown	In 1971, Brown became a member of the Party's Central Committee as Minister of Information, replacing the expelled Eldridge Cleaver.
Lu Zhangong	In July 1996, he was appointed vice secretary of the CPC Hebei committee.
Luo Huining	In March 2013 he was again promoted to Communist Party Chief of Qinghai, replacing Qiang Wei who had been transferred to Jiangxi province.
Peng Qinghua	In 2001, he was appointed director of the first cadres bureau and department committee member of the CPC Organization Department.
Nur Bekri	He had served as deputy party secretary of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China since January 2005.
Husain al-Radi	Al-Radi was recalled by the Central Committee in June 1955, after it removed Uthman from the secretariat.
Serhiy Arbuzov	Serhiy Arbuzov (, Serhiy Hennadiyovych Arbuzov) is the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine since December 2012, former chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Shapour Bakhtiar	In 1951 he was appointed by the ministry of labor, first as director of the labor department in the Province of Isfahan and later the same position in Khuzestan, center of the oil industry.
Hu Jintao	In 1982, Hu was promoted to the position of Communist Youth League Gansu Branch Secretary and was appointed as the director of the All-China Youth Federation.
Chen Quanguo	In August 2011 Chen was transferred and promoted again, this time to remote Tibet Autonomous Region as Party Chief, the top official of the region.
Mark Stanhope	On 24 June 2011 The Daily Telegraph confirmed that Stanhope, in common with the Chief of the Air Staff and the Chief of the General Staff, would lose his position on the Defence Board, the highest non-ministerial Ministry of Defence committee, which makes decisions on all aspect of military policy.
Liu Shaoqi	In 1927 Liu was elected to the Party's Central Committee, and was appointed to the head of its Labor Department.
Boyko Borisov	Following a party congress in January 2010, Borisov became the official leader of GERB (of which he had been only an'' informal leader''), thus replacing Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who had served under Borisov at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and later as a vice-mayor of Sofia.
Nikolai Bryukhanov	In April 1931, he was made Deputy People's Commissar of Supplies of the USSR.
Chen Liangyu	In March 1983 he was promoted to become deputy plant manager of the Shanghai Pengpu machine factory, as well as the party committee deputy secretary of the Shanghai Metallurgy Mining Machinery Company.
Nahum Gergel	After the Getman Skoropadskyi's coup in April 1918, Gergel became effectively the head of the Jewish Ministry of Ukraine.
Chen Kuiyuan	In 1989, Chen became a standing member of CPC Inner Mongolia committee, and the secretary of commission for higher institutions of the autonomous region.
Xu Xiuzhi	In May 1938, he was appointed to the Ministry for Judicial Administrating, Executive Yuan, the Reformed Government of the Republic of China.
Baglan Mailybayev	In October 2011 he was appointed as a Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the Presidential decree.
Wang Jun (PRC politician)	Beginning in 1999, he served in several posts in Jiangxi Province, including vice governor, vice secretary of the CPC provincial committee and president of the Jiangxi provincial party school.
Yuriy Kotsiubynsky	In March 1918 Kotsiubynsky was elected to the Central Executive Committee (a. k. a. Tsikuka) and also was appointed as the People's Secretary of Internal Affairs.
Liu Yazi	In 1932, however, he was re-elected to the GMD Central Supervisory Committee and was appointed to a position in the Shanghai City Government.
Zoran Milanovi?	As an SDP member, in 2004 he renounced his position as an assistant minister of foreign affairs and became a member of the newly founded SDP's Executive Committee as well as the International Secretary in charge of contacts with other political parties.
Wang Jiarui	In October 1985, Wang entered the national Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and became vice director and later, director of the bureau of newspaper issuing.
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan	In 2005, he became the deputy chairman of the Abu Dhabi education council (ADEC), chairman of the Emirates Foundation, Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, and Abu Dhabi Fund for Development.
Rufat Aslanli	On November 19, 2008 Aslanli was appointed the Chairman of State Committee for Securities of Azerbaijan Republic.
Atma Jayaram	In 1968, Jayaram was appointed Inspector General of Andhra Pradesh, the official head of police in the state.
Zhou Zijian	In April 1947, he was transferred to the secretariat of the United Front Work Department, where he became vice-department head, and then department head.
Liao Xilong	He was promoted to the position of commander of the Chengdu Military Region and the vice Party secretary there in 1995.
Georgy Pyatakov	He was expelled from the party for belonging to the'' Trotskyite-Zinovievite'' bloc, but was reinstated in 1928 after he renounced Trotskyism, and became Deputy head of Heavy Industries.
Xia Qifeng	After the Wang Jingwei regime was established in March 1940, Xia Qifeng was appointed Chief of the Auditing Bureau of the Control Yuan ().
Qiao Shi	From 1963, he worked in the Communist Party's central International Liaison Department, which was responsible for policy formation in foreign affairs.
Vicky Kippin	Following her departure from state politics, Kippin won the Commercial Fisherman of the Year Award in 1981 and was elected chairman of the Innisfail Regional Promotion Bureau the same year.
Li Kenong	In 1953 Li was appointed as a Deputy Chief of Staff in the People's Liberation Army.
Yu Baoxuan	In August 1920 he was appointed Associate Director General of the Government Economic Investigation Bureau.
Deng Xiaoping	In 1956, he became Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee, Head of the Organization Department and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Huang Qingyi	In September 1999, she was elevated to vice director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Hu Jintao	In 1988, Hu was transferred to become Party Regional Committee Secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the restive area's number-one figure, while also taking on the role of Political Commissar of the local People's Liberation Army units.
Alexander Korzhakov	Following the election of Yeltsin in June 1991 as President of the RSFSR, Korzhakov became the Chief of Yeltsin's Security Service, which was later transformed into the Presidential Security Service when the Soviet Union was dissolved.
Azer Amiraslanov	By the Presidential Decree dated on August 25, 2008 he was appointed to the head of Department of Agrarian Policy Issues at the Administration of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Basuki Rahmat	Basuki also become active as a member of the Social-Political Committee (Panitia Sospol), the Army political think-tank which Suharto set up after he had become Commander In February 1966, in a Cabinet Reshuffle, Basuki was named Minister of Veterans' Affairs.
Nikolai Podgorny	By the end of 1939 Podgorny had become Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR.
Max Johannes Arildskov	He quickly advanced through the ranks, first as district leader, later member of the party staff and eventually became a candidate for the parliamentary elections in 1943.
Bai Lichen	In 1980, he was elevated to vice secretary and later, secretary of CPC committee in Suburbs District of Yingkou.
Yu Qiuli	After the Communist victory in 1949, he became the head of a military academy and thereafter held various posts in the central military command, including the head of the military's financial affairs.
Reginald Maudling	In November 1945 he became the first staff member of the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat, later the Conservative Research Department, where he was head of the Economic Section.
Li Jingtian	In 1976, Li was elevated to vice secretary and later, secretary of CYL Heihe committee.
Karl Hanke	In 1938, he was promoted to State Secretary (Deputy Minister) in the Propaganda Ministry.
Wang Sanyun	Wang was first appointed as the acting Governor of Anhui, as well as vice-governor, in December 2007.
Girolamo Li Causi	Li Causi became a member of the national directorate of the PCI that was reinstated on August 29, 1943, in Rome.
Guo Chaoren	He was promoted to vice secretary of CPC group and vice president of Xinhua News Agency in March 1986.
Shen Yueyue	In March 1993, she was appointed as vice secretary of CPC Hangzhou committee.
Alexei Khvostov	In 1904 he was vice governor of Minsk but in the same year appointed in Tula.
Rafael Hui	In 2005, Hui was appointed by the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, on the nomination of Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, to the Chief Secretary for Administration.
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong	He became Head of State and Chairman of the National Redemption Council (NRC), which was later transformed into the Supreme Military Council on 9 October 1975, with Colonel Acheampong (promoted to General) as its chairman.
Cao Bochun	He became the secretary of CPC Zhuzhou committee in 1984.
Avaz Alakbarov	He became the Head of Azerbaijan branch of Pension Fund of USSR in 1991.
Ziya Mammadov	On July 31, 1996 he was appointed the Chairman of the Azerbaijan State Railway Administration by the order No. 379 of the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev.
Arseny Zverev	In the meantime he held a range of offices in government, the first being the position of Deputy Commissar for Finance in September 1937 but was again quickly promoted, this time to the office of the People's Commissar for Finance, the head of Soviet finance.
Vladimir Kokovtsov	From 1890 -- 96 he served in the State Council as Assistant State Secretary, State Secretary and finally as Assistant Imperial Secretary where he worked primarily on matters reviewed by the Russian Imperial State Council's Department of State Economy.
Zhang Dingfan	In 1927 he was appointed to head the 13th Army in the 3rd Military District as well as Mayor of Shanghai.
Ruan Zhenduo	From November 1932, he served on the General Affairs State Council as Director of the Construction Bureau.
Ivan Serov	Viktor Suvorov claims Serov may have been one of the people responsible for the Katyn Massacre, In 1941 Serov was promoted to become Deputy Commissar of the NKVD as a whole, serving under Beria as one of his primary lieutenants ; in this function, Serov was responsible for the deportation of a variety of Caucasian peoples.
Alexander Altunin	He was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and made head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in 1970.
Yuri Andropov	In 1967, he was relieved of his work in the Central Committee apparatus and appointed head of the KGB on recommendation of Mikhail Suslov, at the same time promoted a Candidate Member of the Politburo.
Alexey Kharuzin	In 1891, Kharuzin was appointed a special assistant to the governor of Estonia and later as a secretary for the former peasant committee, the provincial statistics committee, the provincial body for peasant affairs.
Pietro Grasso	On 11 October 2005 he was appointed national Anti- Mafia prosecutor, succeeding Pier Luigi Vigna, who left office in August 2005 having reached the retirement age, while he was still head of the prosecutor of Palermo.
Viktor Baloha	On December 9, 2010 the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych discharged Viktor Baloha from the position of the Minister of Emergencies and Affairs of Population Protection from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe of Ukraine and appointed Viktor Baloha to the position of the Minister of Emergencies of Ukraine.
Peng Chong	When order, and the provincial party committee were restored in 1970, Peng was made a Deputy Secretary, again as the sole civilian.
Mihael Brejc	In 1993, he was dismissed as director of the Security Agency by the then Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek, and returned to the academia.
Liu Zihou	However, with the help of his patron, the senior party leader Li Xiannian, in January 1980 he became the Deputy Director of the State Planning Commission of China.
Luo Huining	After university Luo Huining started working for the provincial government of Anhui, rising to the position of Propaganda Chief of the province in 1999.
Ivan Kulyk	In December 1917 he was elected to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets and the first Soviet government of the Ukrainian SSR (heading the People's Secretariat of the Foreign Affairs).
Cao Gangchuan	In March 2003, he was appointed as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China as well as state councilor.
Vasiliy Ulrikh	In 1926 Ulrikh became Chairman of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
Chen Zhili	In August 1997, Chen was transferred to central government and appointed as vice director and leader of Party group of National Education Commission.
Baglan Mailybayev	Since December 2008 he had been a Vice Minister of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Sergiy Bychkov	In July 2000, according to a Decree of the President of Ukraine he served as a Deputy Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk region state administration on economic reforms, investments and external economic links.
Rao Shushi	After that he was released in 1932 and transferred to Shanghai to work on labor union, once as Propaganda Minister and Secretary General of Chinese State Labor Union, while his rival Liu became superior again as the Chairman of China State Labor Union.
Aliheydar Garayev	After occupation of Azerbaijan by the Red Army on April 27, 1920 he was member of the Interim Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee, Baku Revolutionary Committee, People's Labor Commissar, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of Azerbaijan and briefly headed the Baku City Executive Committee.
Wang Zhao	In the Spring of 1961, he was appointed the second secretary of the CPC Qinghai committee and the governor of Qinghai.
Salim Muslumov	According to the Presidential Decree, he was appointed the Chairman of the State Social Protection Fund of Azerbaijan Republic on December 17, 2002.
David Dore	In 1985, Dore was appointed Director General of the CFSA, a newly created paid staff position in contrast to his previous volunteer, elected position as president.
Mikhail Manevich	In 1996, as Vladimir Yakovlev had been elected governor instead of Anatoly Sobchak, Manevich also became Vice Governor of Saint Petersburg for City Property Management.
Xia Minghan	In the beginning of 1928, Xia was transferred to Hubei to be the commissioner of the CPC Hubei District Committee.
Nikolai Patrushev	In April 1999, he became FSB First Deputy Director - and on 9 August the same year a decree by President Boris Yeltsin promoted him to Director, replacing Vladimir Putin.
Shi Zongyuan	He was elevated to vice secretary of CPC Jilin committee in May 2000.
Elchin Khalilov	He was appointed Deputy Chairman (2000) and Chairman of the Experts' Council of the Higher Attestation Commission under the President of Azerbaijan.
Huang Yanpei	After the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, Huang served as Head of Civilian Affairs (民政司總務科長) and Head of Education (教育科長) in the Office of the Governor of Jiangsu (江蘇都督府).
Ivan Yakubovsky	On 12 April 1967 he was made First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (simultaneously with the appointment of Andrei Grechko as Minister of Defense) and Marshal of the Soviet Union, whilst from July that year he contiguously held the post of supreme commander of the forces of the Warsaw Pact.
Yang Chonghui	In 1990, Yang was elevated to a standing committee member of CPC Sichuan committee, the secretary of commission for discipline inspection of Sichuan, and a member of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.