KIEV, July 24 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday appointed two Communist Party loyalists to senior posts in the government, less than two weeks after the pro-Russian party had refused to support a no-confidence vote.

Vasyl Marmazov was appointed to the post of the deputy internal affairs minister, while Mykola Tymoshenko was appointed to the post of the head of the State Committee on Forestry, the government announced.