11.  A former regional communist boss, Jozef Oleksy, is already prime minister.

12.  A former regional communist boss, Jozef Oleksy, is prime minister.

13.  A former communist provincial boss, Jozef Oleksy, is already prime minister.

14.  A former Communist boss, Karimov says he is postponing democracy until he gets the economy in order.

15.  A third man convicted with them, communist party boss Hans Albrecht, has until Wednesday to turn himself in.

16.  Among them was Hans Modrow, a former municipal Communist boss who got a nine-month suspended sentence and was fined for falsifying ballots in the Dresden district.

17.  Azerbaijan, an oil-rich former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea, is ruled by a hard-line government of President Geidar Aliyev, a former Communist boss.

18.  Dzasokhov, a Russian legislator and a one-time regional Communist boss, also is considered pro-Moscow.

19.  Former communist party boss Hans Albrecht turned himself in Monday, the last of the three to begin serving their jail sentences.

20.  Former Communist bosses have remained or returned to power in several ex-Soviet republics, from Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan.