0 a group of three people, especially government officials:
The careers of this troika are richly detailed, but the book is more than a work of political biography.
In the struggle for influence and authority, the troika, more often than not, was mired in a morass of intrigue and friction.
It was not our decision that this summit would be a troika.
The various elections held since 1996 have been described by the parliamentary troika as lacking in effective democratic guarantees.
You say that the troika will have access to areas and to as many individuals as it wants.
There is no resentment, but we rather think that a better expression would have been "troika".
What we have in fact is what has sometimes been called a troika, and one which is not always, unfortunately, in step.
Your presence has been increased more, with the troika and the presidential triumvirate, but we have gained in a relative sense.
