n a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
To the convention's praesidium of 37 were elected, amid loud cheers, ten honorary world members, including Josef Stalin and George Dimitroff, fiery Bulgarian Communist tried for .
Vladimir Putin in BBC News On the same day, Mr Putin spoke to "an enlarged session of the Federal Security Service (FSB) praesidium" - a meeting of the top bosses of the secret police.