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"czar" Definitions
  1. the emperor of Russia in the past
  2. (in compounds) (informal) an official whose job is to advise the government on policy in a particular area

842 Sentences With "czar"

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"If it walks like a czar, talks like a czar, quacks like a czar, it's a czar," one political scientist told BuzzFeed News.
"If it walks like a czar, talks like a czar, quacks like a czar, it's a czar," New York University political scientist Paul Light told BuzzFeed News.
The appointment of any "czar" — the drug czar, the bioethics czar, the auto-industry-recovery czar — is meant to show how serious the government takes one societal problem or another.
Who remembers the "rubber czar" of World War II, the "inflation czar" of the 1970s, or the "faith-based czar" of 2001?
The list of girls' names includes Figgy, Gethsemane, Czar-Czar, Hum, Koala, Scar, Power and Queenie.
That same year, Czar of Crickets staged the first Czar Fest, headlined by Schammasch, and in 218 Czar Fest booked Zeal & Ardor's first show ever, just prior to their meteoric rise.
Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar — and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.
In the end, President Donald Trump got a coronavirus czar — without having to call it a czar.
GOP BLOCKS OBAMA SANCTIONS CZAR: Republicans thwarted a push by Senate Democrats to confirm President Obama's long-stalled sanctions czar on Wednesday. Sen.
GOP BLOCKS OBAMA'S SANCTIONS CZAR: Republicans thwarted a push by Senate Democrats to confirm President Obama's long-stalled sanctions czar on Wednesday. Sen.
Mr. Scherbakov has also designed statues of Czar Alexander I and Pyotr Stolypin, prime minister under Czar Nicholas II, in other prestigious Moscow locations.
President Trump is considering a "border czar" or "immigration czar" to coordinate immigration policy across various federal agencies as he continues to threaten to close the U.S.-Mexico border, AP reports.
The Serbs, feeling threatened, asked the Russian czar for help.
And we have with us today Rob the cyber czar.
Marino was also Trump's nominee for drug czar in 2017.
Nicholas II was a weak czar and look what happened.
Trump's drug czar was prodded by House Oversight Chairman Rep.
The "Card Czar" picks the winner, and another round begins.
So she does the only thing she can: She makes him the cybersecurity czar (ah, another czar) and shoves him into a basement office, where he has no cell reception and, presumably, no Wi-Fi.
"Ex-Czar of Russia Killed by Order of Ural Soviet" (July 21, 1918) — view in TimesMachine On July 16, 13, Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.
They no longer believed in the divine right of the czar.
Then a new player becomes Card Czar and the process repeats.
The corporate czar is accustomed to making deals, not building alliances.
Or, as the LA Times quickly dubbed her, California's marijuana czar.
He hosted the country's internet czar at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters.
Mr. Trump has been considering creating an immigration "czar" for months.
In other words: He could really use a good drug czar.
China's economic czar is expected to visit Washington sometime after that.
It was like the court of Czar Nicholas II in 1917.
Neomi Rao, the nominee in question, is Trump's current regulatory czar.
Czar Alexander I even briefly claimed much of the Pacific Northwest.
Having a czar does make you feel there's somebody in charge.
Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) about whether Trump would name a czar.
SECRETARY WILBUR ROSS: I DON'T THINK CZAR IS THE RIGHT TERM.
As drug czar, Marino seems poised to move away from this approach.
Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, in his remarks on an opioids czar.
He wants not to be the president, but to be America's czar.
Acting drug czar Richard Baum called the proposed cuts "heartbreaking," NPR reported.
Mr. al-Qahtani grew into the prince's media czar and fiercest protector.
Probably from Peter Navarro, his trade czar, whose star is clearly rising.
The White House nominated Carroll as national drug czar earlier this month.
War was easily averted, but the Czar was sure Japan wouldn't attack.
Graham, along with the "Czar" of the Democratic open borders coalition, Sen.
It also torpedoed Marino's chances to become President Trump's first drug czar.
The wedding czar is done; long live whoever I'm about to be.
Opinion Columnist So, our Coronavirus Czar is going to be … Mike Pence.
Jim Merritt — is in the running to be White House drug czar.
Sitting beside McNeil was the Trump White House's drug czar, Jim Carroll.
In short, Rao serves as President Donald Trump's czar for regulatory rollbacks.
The Rhode Island model was lauded by former drug czar, Michael Boticelli.
She is a great-great-granddaughter of Czar Alexander II, who was assassinated in 1881 and was a grandfather of Nicholas II, the czar who was killed, along with his wife and five children, by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
" Of course, that contradicts an earlier Politico story — headlined "Ivanka Trump, climate czar?
She was even rumored to be her father's choice as his climate czar.
Trump administration officials declined to comment on whether they consider Conway a czar.
So far, Trump has not personally anointed anyone in his administration a "czar".
It is also unclear as to the nationality of the new intelligence czar.
The federal government has had an AIDS czar for more than two decades.
President Camille Chamoun and foreign policy czar Dr. Charles Malek, two avid apostles
The indictments were announced after President Donald Trump's nominee for drug czar, Rep.
Herbert Hoover , the American aid-relief czar, finally managed to make that happen.
That reach has made Anderson the de facto czar for silly fake holidays.
He knows that becoming economy czar will just make him a punching bag.
DuPont is a former drug czar to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
"(Frick) was a caretaker, not a czar," longtime baseball writer Jerome Holtzman wrote.
And do what his brother had once tried to do: kill the czar.
These portray, somewhat comedically, the murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family.
Ron Klain, who was Mr. Obama's Ebola "czar," is a top Biden adviser.
He recently withdrew his name from consideration to be the nation's Drug Czar.
After the overthrow of the czar in 1917, democracy once again lost out.
MOSCOW — It is an eye-catching wardrobe malfunction that beguiles a future czar.
Ghosts of your dead teacher-turned-drug czar don't drive station wagons. Sorry.
The Associated Press first reported the White House was considering hiring a czar.
The proposal comes as the White House also considers appointing an immigration czar.
I KNOW YOU REMEMBER IN THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION THERE WAS ACTUALLY A DEREGULATION CZAR.
"But now it seems that then Donald Trump wants to be the deportation czar."
As the drug czar, Botticelli oversees the full scope of the federal drug budget.
Czar is not an official term, and some czars are more important than others.
He appointed a "drug czar" after taking office to tackle the opioid addiction crisis.
Rodzianko said his great-grandfather, Mikhail Rodzianko, quickly regretted pushing the czar to abdicate.
A card czar, who hosts the show, awards points based on the funniest material.
Then, in a magical reversal, the cockerel springs to life and kills the czar.
Gillibrand, as president, would create a "Pharma Czar" and prosecute companies for price gouging.
Demonstrations under the slogan "He is not our czar" took place throughout the country.
Meanwhile, Guy Conti, the Mets' 73-year-old spring training czar, paced the field.
Tom Marino (R-Pa.) withdrew his name from consideration as the nation's drug czar.
"Czar Alexander II was riding down this road when the assassins struck," she said.
If the immigration czar thing doesn't pan out, Kobach has other plans lined up.
At the very least, the sport would have gotten a czar, not a caretaker.
I also don't mean the economics czar Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
"If she wants, I can commission her to be the drug czar," Duterte said.
The Obama administration appointed an Ebola czar to coordinate the response across government agencies.
They want their pharaoh or their czar or their emperor to set a path.
Stephen Wilson and the White House cybersecurity czar will speak beginning at 2202 a.m.
Stephen Wilson and the White House cybersecurity czar will speak beginning at 7 a.m.
It would also restructure the Department of Homeland Security and create an immigration czar.
In 1997, the federal government's drug czar himself was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.
Third, Bloomberg Businessweek published a brief interview with President Trump's former infrastructure czar D.J. Gribbin.
His motorboat epiphany has turned him into a kind of unofficial spontaneous volunteer rescue czar.
Before Trump took office, it was rumored that Ivanka would become the new climate czar.
Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel Tarullo, the unofficial czar of financial regulation, has just resigned.
The czar will need staffers who know all the tricks -- and the ways around them.
Fourth, the czar must work from the White House and report directly to the president.
Now comes the harder part for the Kremlin: persuading Russians to accept their new czar.
"We make this and you make that," said Jon Kaiman, Suffolk County's shared-services czar.
A 19th-century insurgency stretched for decades before the army of Czar Alexander II triumphed.
Layered in her own surfeit of furs, Judy carried herself like a czar in minks.
Mr. Khan has already appointed a Night Czar to amp up London's late-night offerings.
The president would continue to be the commander in chief and the foreign-policy czar.
A White House spokesman said the president had no plans to create a czar position.
The difference, of course, is that this time the modern czar has made himself popular.
POTUS sits down individually with czar and the secretaries of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice, Ag, Interior, and Commerce, and tells each of the Secretaries to follow the directives of the czar without delay, subject to appeal to the President in cases of disagreement. 6.
Trump made clear on Wednesday that Pence "is not a czar," denoting a difference between his role and that of Ziemer or Ron Klain, the Obama-appointed lead coordinator for the US response to the Ebola epidemic who was referred to as the Ebola czar.
In the past, he has consolidated his legitimacy as the "good czar" through such individual cases.
This handshake famously occurred when Trump's handshake authority was usurped by Czar of Sunshine Justin Trudeau.
A little over a month ago, the White House forced out Tom Bossert, its cybersecurity czar.
Marino as our nation's drug czar is like putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse.
It fermented a snowballing of disbelief in the legitimacy of the czar leading toward the revolution.
Tom Marino (R-Pa.) as his drug czar, according to a CBS News report on Tuesday.
Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar.
Rob Joyce, who announced his resignation weeks ago, will be the last so-called cyber czar.
A pro-regulations group on Tuesday urged senators to reject Rao, Trump's pick for regulatory czar.
Served as Mr. Trump's so-called regulatory czar until her appointment to the bench in 2019.
CreditCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Dan Walsh is New York's unofficial czar of soil.
And second, his brother Alexander, whom he idolized, was executed for conspiring to kill the czar.
China's trade czar, Liu He, is scheduled to participate in negotiations in Washington on Jan. 2345.
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the previous crown prince and counterterrorism czar, remains under virtual house arrest.
Night mayor, night manager, night czar: The job has many names, but the idea is similar.
The new czar rolled back many of his father's reforms and imposed even more repressive measures.
Venezuelans are used to seeing photographs of the nation's "beauty czar" dwarfed by his towering queens.
The Czar and his advisors were sure Russia would win any war with an Asian country.
Trump weighed the merits of appointing a coronavirus "czar" but decided against it, according to reports.
Meanwhile, Tom Marino was set to become our nation's nominee for drug czar at the time.
"The year 1916 was cursed," Czar Nicholas II is said to have written in his diary.
Vice Premier Liu He, China's economic czar, is expected to go to Washington sometime after that.
His homelessness czar Philip Mangano was a major proponent of a "housing first" approach to homelessness.
He told Fox Business Network Monday morning that "it's possible that the White House might want a border czar in addition to a new ... Homeland Security secretary," but also conceded that the czar position might not be necessary if the right person was leading the department.
Peter Navarro, Trump's trade czar, made $240K last year as a professor at UC Irvine, per Politico.
For many months, Trump's deputy czar was a 24-year-old political neophyte who bloated his resume.
Howard Schmidt became an adviser, and soon afterward was appointed the cybersecurity czar for the Obama Administration.
"The Russian people got what they wanted, a czar ruling the country," he said of Mr. Putin.
For now, our collective focus should be on the DRC, said former US "Ebola czar" Ron Klain.
Known as a CCAR Czar, his official title was vice-chairman and executive sponsor of the CCAR.
Digital czar Baer complained that "there is always a great deal of foggy angst" about digital technology.
But Ivanka as climate czar seems as mismatched as a conspiracy theorist in charge of national security.
Imagine you were an economic czar trying to boost incentives for business investment and labor force participation.
At least, it was apparently okay back in 1878, when there was still a czar of Russia.
And then I was just about to leave when these three big Czar German Shepherds showed up.
The drug czar also directly administers $380 million in federal grant programs, with little oversight or accountability.
The move by Lu Wei, best known as China's internet czar, came as a surprise to analysts.
President Donald Trump faced growing calls Monday to dump his pick for the nation's drug czar, Rep.
After all, the media dubbed me President Obama's "green jobs czar" in 2009 -- and I hated it.
China's economy czar will join trade talks in Washington later this week, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
As the "Czar of Cars" discusses on CNBC's "Blue Collar Millionaires, " Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif.
"It's really about being able to make a complete mess," Mr. Urbanski, the firm's playground czar, said.
And Wang Qishan, Mr. Xi's so-called anticorruption czar, is expected to be named vice president soon.
Leading them: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Liu He, Beijing's economic czar.
That year, Bill Clinton's drug czar Lee Brown was making a similar—but even more explosive—claim.
Politico reported the U.S. may be considering a "coronavirus czar," which the White House has vehemently denied.
The portrait later entered the collections of the son-in-law of Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
The wedding czar sent off the list, which contained nothing Sarah and Jesse hadn't already thought of.
One of them was Yakov Sverdlov, who ordered the executions of Czar Nicholas II and his family.
Kobach is also among the list of people being floated to become the White House immigration czar.
The most powerful nuclear weapon ever created, known as the Czar bomb, was tested there in 1961.
But the palatial architecture—soaring columns and arches, patterned ceilings, dazzling chandeliers—seemed fit for a czar.
"There are individuals who try to seek favoritism, who want to bring something good to the czar."
Announced this morning -- we're in the market for a new drug czar if you know anyone: Rep.
And you — you will be remembered only as the czar who lived in the time of Pushkin.
Mr. Mnuchin said that he and Mr. Lighthizer had "productive meetings" with Liu He, China's economic czar.
The czar abdicated, replaced by a liberal government, swept into power on a tide of popular support.
" Last month, President Donald Trump said on Fox News that Homan would become the administration's next "immigration czar.
Talks about the nature of the border czar position are still ongoing, according to one of the officials.
That's what he really wants to be involved with," Trump continued, later adding, "He'll be a border czar.
Trump also left the post of drug czar, the policymaker who heads the ONDCP, vacant for a year.
Corbally thought a fling with the president was a great idea: "Just think," Czar said Corbally told her.
A hacker called "LosT" eagerly accepted the role of Def Con badge czar, which he held until 22015.
London will put its Night Czar on the city payroll; Zurich's council is made up of seven volunteers.
Before that, he worked at Yahoo, where he once held the title of "spam czar" for Yahoo mail.
She's no Gretchen Carlson, who once pretended to have to look up "czar" and "ignoramus" in the dictionary.
The Card Czar reads all the responses, decides which is the funniest, and that player gets one point.
Adams's mission in 1809 was to convince the czar of Russia, Emperor Alexander I, to trade with America.
He also makes sure our freelancers get paid, is Motherboard's official union representative, and our unofficial salad czar.
"You guys won, and you need to back off," the former (short-lived) Obama administration "green czar" warned.
Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican who is now President Trump's nominee to become the nation's next drug czar.
Republicans thwarted a push by Senate Democrats to confirm President Obama's long-stalled sanctions czar on Wednesday. Sen.
Putin is increasingly emulating a czar-like ruler for life, who does what he wants, when he wants.
The new oil czar, former housing minister Major General Manuel Quevedo, has no experience in the energy sector.
But Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College and its resident music czar, loves unearthing potential buried treasure.
The February Revolution of 21917 bought down Czar Nicholas II and ushered in a period of liberal reforms.
Another figure reportedly targeted was another critic of Kaspersky Lab: former cybersecurity czar to President Obama Michael Daniel.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bridgewater's founder thinks his kindred spirit resides in China's anti-corruption czar Wang Qishan.
Kirsten Gillibrand's proposal would create a new pharmaceutical czar who would go after companies' predatory practices, and Sen.
The card czar then chooses the funniest answer and awards a point to the person who played it.
She may also have received less scrutiny because of … Hope Hicks, White House communications czar, and her tuxedo.
It really took presidential leadership and the installation of a "czar" to finally bring order to that chaos.
I always thought that CZAR was the newer word and more idiomatic, but it turns out that's debatable.
But the kingdom has already assigned some blame for the killing to Mr. Qahtani, the social-media czar.
The church considers the czar to be a saint, and a saint shouldn't be portrayed as having affairs.
The administration also tapped a new "czar" housed at the Department of Health and Human Services, putting Adm.
"I don't anticipate" a czar being appointed, Azar said during testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.
President Thomas Jefferson received a bust of Czar Alexander I as a diplomatic gift from the Russian government.
Trump said Pence would not be a "czar," but stressed the vice president will be coordinating the efforts.
In effect, this meant that the presiding judge, Harold Greene, inherited the unadvertised job of U.S. telecommunications czar.
The retirement czar would be ambitious, optimistic and able to find a middle ground acceptable to the majority.
But the federal government's former ethics czar disputed this succession plan Monday, as news about Rosenstein was breaking.
Mr. Putin, as the "good czar," enjoys a status that the rest of the government falls short of.
Given this, the president should immediately appoint a czar to ensure transparency and accountability throughout the recovery process.
He joined up with the Obama White House in its first year to be its "green jobs" czar.
Klain, the former "Ebola czar," has pointed out that right now there's no equivalent to FEMA for health.
" Or as former federal drug czar Michael Botticelli often said, "We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people.
Czar was promoting her new beach-blanket movie Wild Guitar and newly single after a relationship with Elvis Presley.
He smiled for a photo while flanked by Xi Jinping, the country's president, and Lu Wei, its Internet czar.
Clarke, the former White House cybersecurity czar, can't fathom how the Trump administration is using cybersecurity for nuclear justification.
True, Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism czar, had the decency to look family members in the eye and apologize publicly.
The state funded an Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman, dubbed the "Porn Czar," for two years beginning in 85033.
Luckily, the script is largely in place, and the drug czar just needs to change some of the words.
Cuccinelli and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach had been in the running for the immigration czar job.
Neomi Rao, who Trump tapped to be the nation's so-called "regulatory czar," advanced in the Senate on Wednesday.
I remember the "We can't arrest our way out of this problem" taking steam with Obama's first drug czar.
Premier Li Keqiang's job is also on the line, with some suggesting that Wang may replace the economic czar.
On a rear wall is a framed portrait that gradually morphs from Czar Nicholas II to Stalin to Khrushchev.
But maybe we should be asking another question: Why do we need a drug czar in the first place?
Unlike many Slavophiles, he hated the Russian traditions of despotism and the Russian Orthodox worship of czar and throne.
Tom Marino, R-Pennsylvania, sponsored the bill and was awaiting confirmation to become the next White House drug czar.
My actual title ("special adviser") did not carry the powers that one might have assumed a "czar" would possess.
From the 1870s to the 1910s, Czar Nicholas II made sketches of cuff links that he received as gifts.
Norm Eisen, former President Obama's ethics czar, also accused Trump of violating the emoluments clause due to the project.
I refer of course to Elizabeth Warren, our senior senator and, as it were, the nation's unelected regulatory czar.
President Obama's former "ethics czar" has been hammering the new President with an array of conflicts of interest questions.
At the beginning of each round, one player, called the "card czar," deals a black card from the deck.
"Putin is Russia's czar and Erdogan would like to be Turkey's sultan but he is not," Mr. Trenin said.
While he was the hostage czar, Mr. O'Brien pushed hard to figure out a way to free Mr. Tice.
As the hostage czar, Mr. O'Brien embraced the idea of traveling to Damascus to negotiate with the Syrian government.
No. 4 was Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, who Trump rewarded with a nomination to be the country's drug czar.
And their grandchildren could have risen up against the czar, and their grandchildren could have been crushed by revolution.
The statue of the czar outside the Church on the Blood was a lie, because it changed the past.
Another would be to enable his ally and anti-corruption czar, Wang Qishan, to stay in the Standing Committee.
In Russia, a new czar is all too happy to undermine the West's quaint belief in Wilsonian self-determination.
Each state appointed a "stimulus czar" who, along with the state budget officer, had weekly calls with federal liaisons.
On the day I attended, it was led by Haña Lucero-Colin, the site's 24-year-old TV czar.
Instead, he became Trump's cybersecurity czar before joining the team of lawyers defending TRUMP personally in the Russia investigation.
It's also a form understood by Bill Shine, the White House communications czar who is a former Fox executive.
A revolution has taken place, he believes, but somehow the czar and his ministers remain in the Winter Palace.
" On March 15, the day of his abdication, the czar wrote, "All around there is treason, cowardice and deceit.
Kabila's anti-corruption czar estimated in 2015 that Congo loses up to $15 billion a year due to fraud.
But, emblematic of the foodie craze, she has enthusiastically adopted her unofficial role as the basketball team's meal czar.
The Bolsheviks overthrew a provisional government; they did not overthrow the czar, who had abdicated earlier in the year.
Norman Eisen, who policed Obama's rules as in-house ethics czar until 2011, acknowledged the law should be tweaked.
Media experience would also allow Facebook's news quality czar to be a more credible messenger to the news business.
" Manchin called for "60 Minutes" opioid whistleblower and former DEA agent Joe Rannazzisi to be the White House drug czar (Trump's previous pick was bounced as a result of the CBS report): "The drug czar has to be somebody that has the expertise, has the medical background and has been personally involved.
To help him achieve the goal, Trump has tapped investor activist Carl Icahn to be his unofficial czar of regulation.
In fact, it wasn't until early this year that the state passed a bill to eliminate its pornography czar position.
In January 1962, Corbally was in Palm Beach, Florida, hanging out with an 18-year-old actor named Nancy Czar.
Earlier in this decade she was CIA director of support, and then became the CIA's first cyber czar in 2013.
The White House axed its top cyber policy position following the departure of former cybersecurity czar Tom Bossert in April.
But Rasputin, who is named for Russia's Czar Nicholas II's nefarious adviser, doesn't let his horns go to his head.
Update 5/4/17: Marino withdrew himself from consideration as Trump's drug czar, citing a critical illness in his family.
The new communist regime was vague about the fate of the Romanovs, although they eventually admitted the Czar was dead.
I'll create a pharmaceutical czar to lead an investigative and enforcement task force, which will exhaustively audit the pharmaceutical industry.
John Hickenlooper even pledged $100 million to the effort and appointed Gart the state's "bike czar" to oversee the effort.
The fund was set up by former Symantec Cybersecurity Czar Tarah Wheeler and the tech law firm of Tor Ekeland.
Toutiao also attracted the attention of Lu Wei, China's heavy-handed internet czar at the time, according to industry executives.
The nation's first "drug czar" Harry Anslinger used fear about its promotion by Mexicans and black people to stir panic.
Hatch calls [the Washington Post/60 Minutes] investigation that led to the DEA czar nominee Tom Marino withdrawing 'complete baloney.
The incumbent in this position is not a policy czar focused on the tactics of engagement, but a master synchronizer.
This resort was the summer playground of the czar and the aristocracy during the last gilded decades of the empire.
But there truly are times when a president does need an honest-to-goodness czar, empowered to drive important changes.
Eric Rosenbach, former Pentagon "cyber czar," is co-director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
White House drug czar Michael Botticelli has estimated that an average of 129 Americans die every day from opioid overdoses.
The czar and his family were lifted into this room, and the story with which they were associated disappeared, traceless.
And as with most city topics in the mid-20th century, the planning czar Robert Moses played a role, too.
"Trump camp targets Obama's Ebola czar," by Marc Caputo A look at a strange strategic detour in the GOP's campaign.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions came under assault mid-May for denouncing the president's choice for the anticorruption czar.
An executive order issued in concert with the summit created a White House trafficking czar position, focused on domestic trafficking.
Ability to spend weekends in KS with family on way from border back to DC, unless POTUS needs czar elsewhere. 8.
On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek, the government's economy czar, said non-performing loans may be somewhat high this year.
And the leading qualification for this job is: Must consider yourself a maven, trend-setter or Czar of cool. Non-negotiable.
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is poised to hire a "Night Czar" to further boost the city's night-time economy.
Other names being floated as immigration czar reportedly include former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and former ICE Director Thomas Homan.
President Trump said he was looking into an explosive report about his pick to be the White House drug czar, Rep.
Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), President Donald Trump's pick for drug czar, hadn't gotten a single hearing from the Senate yet.
This remarkably diverse group included not only free marketeers but also Howard Shelanski, now President Obama's regulatory czar, and Clinton allies.
Democrat Laura Kelly won the gubernatorial race in Kansas (and, in the process, defeated Trump's former voter fraud czar Kris Kobach).
Newsom has threatened a public takeover of PG&E and appointed an energy czar to steer the company out of bankruptcy.
Orrin Hatch called a recent report that led to the withdrawal of President Donald Trump's drug czar nominee "complete baloney" Wednesday.
Last year the Czar presented to the German Emperor a magnificent troika, together with three Russian horses and a Russian coachman.
The Emperor mentioned the matter jocularly to the Russian Ambassador, and so that incident came to the ears of the Czar.
The Corvette enthusiast Mark Reuss, GM's product czar, revealed the all-new Vette at a giant aircraft hangar in Southern California.
Beijing (CNN)China's former internet czar has become the latest senior official caught in President Xi Jinping's massive anti-corruption dragnet.
Simsek, the government's economy czar, was speaking at the opening of the Uludag Economic Summit in the northwestern province of Bursa.
Stop flights Unlike Trump, Obama responded to that crisis by appointing a czar from outside government to coordinate the response effort.
Before that, he was for years the pizza czar (another actual job!) at Roberta's, the lauded pizza palace in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Unlike the Obama administration, Trump has no ethics czar charged with making sure everyone knows about and complies with these rules.
Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was President Barack Obama's "ethics czar" from 2009 to 2011.
He served as President Obama's ethics czar from 2009-11 and as US ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011-14.
Taze Moore led three Roadrunners in double figures with 17 points, while Czar Perry netted 16 and Shawn Stith added 15.
"Judge Moro cannot continue behaving like he was a czar," Mr. da Silva said late last month in a radio interview.
He is also among the individuals being floated to fill a new role being considered by the White House: immigration czar.
He called for at least $2628 billion in funding and for the administration to appoint a czar to oversee the response.
As one of the few officials who could aid in the legalization process, Sessions has instead declared himself the prohibition Czar.
Ambassadors Paléologue and Buchanan have regular private audiences with the czar, and their diaries offer independent testimony to the autocrat's weakness.
YOU'RE – DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GOING TO BE IN CHARGE OF SPACE – THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE SPACE CZAR?
She casually proposed her husband as a jobs czar in a second Clinton Presidency, as if globalization hadn't lost its shine.
Key positions in the administration also remain unfilled — even for the White House's drug czar office and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In the early 1700s, Peter the Great, the czar of Russia, was busy nabbing land from his western neighbor, the Swedish Empire.
Kellyanne Conway, the White House's opioid crisis czar, warned of the risks of illicit fentanyl turning up in other drugs, including marijuana.
An image by Czar Dancel of a woman weeping as she held her partner's body went viral in the Philippines last summer.
Earlier on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said his drug czar nominee, Republican U.S. Representative Tom Marino, had withdrawn his name from consideration.
PILLSBURY: No, there never has been a czar for China, it&aposs always a matter of what the President is concerned with.
The need to appoint an Ebola Czar during the response to 3 cases of Ebola in the U.S. was not an accident.
Dufty, who was Homeless Czar at the time of Matier's interview with Lee, said that the blowback for his office was enormous.
"Basically, it really comes down to what Trump wants to do," Ron Klain, who served as President Obama's "Ebola czar," told me.
A joint investigation by The Washington Post and "60 Minutes" published Sunday detailed how Trump's nominee for "drug czar," Pennsylvania Republican Rep.
In August 1939, however, the guest of honor was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's chief propagandist and the cultural czar of the Third Reich.
Russian authoritarianism is all about the muscular trappings of power and popular adulation cultivated through fawning media for a Czar-like figure.
Meanwhile, the calls are growing across the aisle for the administration to appoint a "czar" or point person to lead the effort.
The admin should appoint a Czar to break thru the bureaucracy & get these kids out of limbo & back in their parents arms.
The knowledge that the czar is a short walk from the Oval Office will enhance his or her authority among all parties.
Aleksander Mikhailov, artistic director of Oryol's children's theater, imagined parents having to explain to young ones that the czar killed his son.
Gavin Newsom moved to reshape Pacific Gas & Electric late last week, appointing an energy czar and taking steps to accelerate bankruptcy negotiations.
CNN contributor Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was President Barack Obama's "ethics czar" from 2009-11.
We got Facebook's ad czar Andrew "Boz" Bosworth to provide early details about "Click To Message" ads at TechCrunch Disrupt last year.
UPDATE: June 23, 2017 Wikipedia editor Czar told us in an email on June 23, 2017 that they are unaffiliated with Uber.
Top tech headlines from Axios: Verizon and AT&T get brief net neutrality warning The upside for Lyft Giuliani for Cyber Czar?
President Trump on Friday appointed a coronavirus czar within the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate all testing-related efforts.
"You need to prioritize people's health and worry about how many might die before the economy's health," said Macías, the H1N1 czar.
During one event, he and the mayor spoke about the idea of a design czar, a position other cities have recently created.
The other guy in the running for the immigration czar gig is reportedly Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the former Virginia attorney general.
Last year, President Trump nominated Representative Tom Marino, Republican of Pennsylvania, to serve as the director, colloquially known as the drug czar.
The United States State Department and the British Foreign Office sent notes of protest, and President Theodore Roosevelt personally chastised Czar Nicholas.
The fact is, the billionaire developer (casino czar, bestselling author, nouveau yachtsman, etc.) has been making overtures to Moscow for some time.
"Mike's not a czar," Trump said when asked about his decision to put Pence in charge of the response to the coronavirus.
The assassins hurled their first round of explosives as Czar Alexander II traveled in his carriage through the streets of St. Petersburg.
The creation of the new mental health czar position, and the nominee, are seen broadly as a victory for the medical side.
White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce has suggested replacing Social Security numbers with something that's more resilient and contains additional security measures.
The Trump administration, while now considering whether to hire its own epidemic czar, has been markedly more casual about the coronavirus outbreak.
In May 2016, Mayor Sylvester Turner appointed Houston's first "flood czar," Stephen Costello, an engineer and former at-large City Council member.
Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb was among a handful of officials being discussed for the role of coronavirus czar.
For the same reason, Maria Romanova, a great-great-granddaughter of Czar Alexander II, now a resident of Spain, also stayed away.
Shortly after the cathedral was finished in 1858, the church asked Czar Alexander II to transfer it, but the plea was overruled.
But Inslee certainly convinced me that he deserves consideration for a future Cabinet, perhaps as the sustainability czar this country sorely needs.
Mr. Putin, 21990, is now the equivalent of a modern Russian czar, who wants to fracture Europe and the liberal Western order.
Trump announced in June that Homan would return as a "border czar," but Homan was caught unaware and the move never happened.
On Saturday, the skyscraper czar who pledged to do big things used his first full day as president to again go small.
The 350-page report on corruption was compiled by Thulisile Madonsela, the former public protector, who is effectively the country's anticorruption czar.
It belonged to Grand Duchess Olga, the youngest sibling of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II. Bulldogs were a favorite breed for the Romanovs.
Please understand that I am not suggesting that the policy manager must be a hands-on, full-time policy czar in all organisations.
The Obama administration appointed him in 218 to be director of the Office of National AIDS Policy (also known as the "AIDS Czar").
Some hardliners are already rallying behind Trump's embattled "voter fraud czar" and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as Nielsen's permanent replacement.
Those voices include two past presidents of the American Psychiatric Association and the former deputy "drug czar" under George H.W. Bush, Herb Kleber.
Be cooperative, not divisiveA drug czar has to coordinate policy within the administration and with Congress with limited resources; that's no easy task.
Professor David Nutt, neuropsychopharmacologist and the former UK drugs czar, argues NOS is "exceptionally safe" given the number of people who use it.
The council also recommends "creating a sort of space czar — an undersecretary of space commerce to oversee" regulatory functions, the Washington Post reports.
One of the more inexplicable developments of the last few years is Dallas Cowboys owner/czar Jerry Jones making some savvy roster moves.
Marino had previously withdrawn from the director position, commonly known as the "Drug Czar," in May, citing "a critical illness" in his family.
Rob Joyce, the White House's cyber security czar, who reported to Bossert, is still working in the administration, a White House official said.
Third, the czar must have a tough deadline -- or a series of tough deadlines -- to create a sense of urgency among all participants.
Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne as a result of the February Revolution, and he and his family were executed the following year.
The request was brought by Norm Eisen, President Barack Obama's ethics czar, and Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit watchdog group.
The U.S. government appointed a "car czar" (first Steven Rattner, currently Ron Bloom) and controlled the majority of the GM board of directors.
A steamy movie called "Matilda," which depicts the affair between the last czar, Nicholas II, and a ballerina, is due out next spring.
Syria is one of those success stories for which the czar is enjoying credit while others will have to manage the thorny consequences.
LONDON — The New Jersey-born broadcaster, writer and comedian Amy Lamé has been appointed here to the splendid-sounding title of Night Czar.
Tom Marino of Pennsylvania -- He's also still in Congress, but Marino was intended to be the country's drug czar after Trump nominated him.
Mr. Trump originally envisioned Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, as his trade czar and the person to coordinate trade policy across the government.
This is, to be brutally honest, not the first time that filling the drug czar role has been an afterthought for an administration.
In London, Mayor Sadiq Khan appointed an American-born British performer and comedian, Amy Lamé, as the city's first "night czar" in 2016.
And his drug czar, Jerome Jaffe, strongly pushed for treating drugs as a health issue, not solely a criminal matter as Ehrlichman suggested.
Law enforcement stopped calling this a "war" in 2009, when I left as Seattle's police chief and became President Barack Obama's drug czar.
The White House denied the report, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that he didn't anticipate a czar being appointed.
The announcement about Birx's new role follows some back-and-forth within the White House over the potential appointment of a coronavirus czar.
Whichever direction the new mental health czar chooses, most agree that the new position at least concentrates accountability for change in one place.
In 1996, over the objections of law enforcement, President Clinton's drug czar and three former presidents, California voters approved marijuana for medicinal purposes.
The vendors were convinced, as Russians have been for centuries, that if only the czar knew of their plight he would surely intervene.
In both cases, having overthrown one tyrant — the czar in 1917 and communism in 1991 — Russia ended up handing over power to another.
" Underscoring that point, two days before the inauguration, the police arrested about 1,600 people at protest actions called "He is not our czar.
But lawmakers focused on the disclosures about Russia's support for Mr. Trump and challenged the briefer, Shelby Pierson, the nation's election security czar.
But lawmakers focused on the disclosures about Russia's support for Mr. Trump and challenged the briefer, Shelby Pierson, the nation's election security czar.
Gary Cohn's comment that "only morons" pay the estate tax may seem like a Leona Helmsley moment for the White House economic czar.
"If I was the United States czar of psychometric tests, there'd need to be some evidence base," said Mr. Shapiro, the enthusiastic red.
Trump's decision to elevate Pence to lead the response came after the administration spent much of Wednesday debating whether a czar was needed.
CNN contributor Norman L. Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was President Barack Obama's "ethics czar" from 2009-11.
Spain appointed a so-called sex czar in February to forge a national fertility action plan and address population declines in rural areas.
When the czar died, you knew the structure that would endure and the process by which his successor, his son, would be elevated.
The czar tried to suppress the protests by force, but his calls to the army were either met with mutinies or simply ignored.
Promise that by November 1, 2019, the President will nominate Kris Kobach to be DHS Secretary, unless Kobach wishes to continue in Czar position.
In his 2010 book, Cyberwar, former US counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke ranked how well a handful of countries would fare in a digital conflict.
Read More: Canada's Privacy Czar: 'Sometimes the Government Goes Too Far' None of this really seemed to apply to something as innocent as Jeopardy!
CNN previously reported that the White House was considering appointing a "border or immigration czar" and that Kobach was under consideration for that role.
Venezuela's new oil czar, former housing minister General Manuel Quevedo, has vowed that output will rise to more than 2.4 million bpd this year.
A new article in Harper's quotes Nixon's domestic czar John Ehrlichman as saying the War on Drugs was a front to punish political enemies.
And short of a messaging czar dictating a single global chat standard that everyone must use, it's a pretty good workaround, don't you think?
" Then, on Tuesday, Trump made it official: He tweeted, "Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar.
Effectively, the drug czar is an advisor to the president and the person who coordinates the many drug policy outposts in the federal government.
Or iconic gay pub the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, where London night czar Amy Lame directed a successful campaign to get the building listed status.
"They're not saying she's going to voluntarily subject herself to ethics rules to be nice," said Norm Eisen, the former ethics czar under Obama.
Regarded as the country's "internet czar," Lu oversaw the introduction of several laws that tightened the government's controls over online news and social media.
They also suggest that a presidentially appointed Commission chair would be tantamount to an "election czar," with vast power to persecute the president's opponents.
Five months earlier, the antidrug czar had foiled the trafficker's plan to use the police to steal 143 kilograms of cocaine from a rival.
Then he turned to the top politician in the room, Liu He, China's economic czar, and said "unharmonious voices" were now condemning private enterprise.
" At recent briefings on the coronavirus, Pence "acted less like the 'coronavirus czar' and more like a good old-fashioned White House press secretary.
Ron Klain, the former Ebola czar under President Barack Obama, gave the Trump administration a failing grade Friday for its response to the coronavirus.
Macías, the H1N1 czar, told me then-President Felipe Calderón and his team sprang into action in two main ways to curb the spread.
Czar says Corey wants to cover his leg with all his inspirations ... and reveals Jimi Hendrix will be the next addition to the sleeve.
A pair of Amur tigers, a gift from a German merchant to Czar Alexander II, on display at the Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg.
The czar, Mr. Uchitel said, became a saint for his martyr's death before a Bolshevik firing squad, not for how he lived his life.
Ron Klain, who has received high marks for his performance as Obama's "Ebola czar," had previously served as Biden's vice presidential chief of staff.
The raw figures go someway to justify the need for a night czar: London's nighttime economy is worth an estimated £26 billion ($34 billion).
While testifying before Congress, Azar insisted a czar wasn't necessary despite how the Obama administration appointed Ron Klain to oversee the Ebola virus response.
In 1864, Czar Alexander II instituted sweeping changes to the legal code, the most radical of which was the introduction of the jury trial.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, also endorsed the idea of a coronavirus czar Wednesday afternoon.
A top Trump health official said Wednesday he does not expect the White House to name a czar to lead the administration's coronavirus response.
Acting White House drug czar Richard Baum said corporate executives have legitimate concerns about the risks involved in hiring those recovering from drug abuse.
It is filled by Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, who gained notoriety as the EU's competition czar with investigations and fines of Google, Facebook, and Apple.
The president's first nomination for drug czar once advocated forcibly hospitalized in prisons anyone caught with a small amount of marijuana or other drugs.
Only 60 years beforehand, Czar Alexander II had finally abolished serfdom, and over 80 percent of the Russian population still lived in rural areas.
As a result, customers pay for plants and wires that "a lot of the time are hardly used," said Mr. Kauffman, the energy czar.
His latest solution -- creating a position of "border czar" to coordinate government efforts -- necessarily implies that our immigration system could use more tailored leadership.
"Trump is exactly the kind of guy Mario hated: all fluff and no substance," said Bill Eimicke, who served as Mario Cuomo's housing czar.
Beyond a role in cyber warfare and cyber defense, the so-called cybersecurity czar coordinated often competing cybersecurity-related interests across the federal government.
Ms. Luchenko, the journalist, noted that in death, the two prime adversaries of the 1917 Revolution, the czar and Lenin, are both stuck in limbo.
The existence of a drug czar goes back to President Richard Nixon, who established the position through the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention.
The whole idea of democracy is that we choose our fate instead of handing over governance to a czar, dictator, queen, high priest or warlord.
A "space czar" could help to consolidate space regulation in a big way and allow companies to do more than simply launch satellites to orbit.
As HHS secretary, Tom Price, 62, will serve as the country's health czar, overseeing healthcare, food safety, drug prices, access to abortions, and biomedical research.
Former Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, a CNN contributor, is a fellow at The Brookings Institution and served as President Obama's "Ethics Czar" from 2009--11.
Here are a few ways to achieve that: Be a populist, like your bossListening to the public is a good thing for a drug czar.
Nonetheless, the czar knew their private thoughts about him and Russia that they had sent to their families, including letters to former President John Adams.
Members of Congress and especially the committee chairs who oversee many of these regulatory areas won't like the czar idea because it dilutes their power.
Kasich's delegate czar is Charlie Black, a deeply connected Republican operative who advised the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Tom Marino, who took nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical interests, has withdrawn as President Donald Trump's nominee to be the nation's drug czar.
At a press breakfast, the network's longtime scheduling czar, Kelly Kahl, said that "losing is a dirty word" at CBS in the era of Moonves.
Former President Obama's cyber czar on Wednesday piled on the criticism of a rumored Trump administration plan to shutter the State Department's cybersecurity coordinator office.
Earlier in the panel, the White House drug czar Michael Botticelli also warned that overprescribing was "one of the top issues" for the federal goverment.
Gabby said they spent $37,000 to build a display area in their new home, designated for the Russian czar they had come to cherish dearly.
Crown Prince bin Nayef, the interior minister and longtime counterterrorism czar, has deep ties to Washington and the support of many of the older royals.
Tom McLellan, board chair of the Treatment Research Institute and former deputy drug czar in the Obama administration, was a science editor of that report.
Sam Dodge, San Francisco's Homeless Czar, told VICE Sports he hadn't been apprised of how much of that $50 million will come to San Francisco.
Tom Marino, America's future Drug Czar, in turn demanded that the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General investigate Rannazzisi for "intimidating" members of Congress.
"We strictly forbade this when I was in the White House for the President and everyone else," Norm Eisen, Obama's former ethics czar, told Politico.
Two figures stand out in assassination lore: Fidel Castro, the Cuban strongman, and Rasputin, the wild-eyed, deeply reviled monk who influenced Russia's last czar.
Kabila's anti-corruption czar estimated in 2015 that the country loses up to $15 billion a year due to fraud, three times the federal budget.
Robert Moses, the city's all-powerful planning czar, while he had no love for modern art or Wright's architecture, was related to Wright by marriage.
Now New York City is adopting an unusual strategy to combat the wave of bias-driven incidents: It has hired an anti-hate crime czar.
The Obama administration's former Ebola czar Ron Klain accused the Trump team of not taking sufficient steps to examine whether the virus was already here.
Rich Baum, the acting drug czar appointed by Mr. Trump, expressed anguish about the cuts in an email sent to the office's staff on Friday.
What is New York doing to pursue "a clean energy agenda," as Richard L. Kauffman, the state's so-called energy czar, said in the article?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is refusing to meet with White House adviser Peter Navarro and the trade czar is "fuming," the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Fifth, the Cyber "Czar" in the White House should be restored so that there is one accountable official overseeing our collective response to cyber attacks.
Sometimes it is a variant spelling; in the case of this czar, he was actually PETER I, succeeded briefly by two different grandsons and namesakes.
I can't speak to his other duties -- prison reform, innovation czar or his all-purpose envoy role for his father-in-law, President Donald Trump.
Peter was immediately unpopular with Russia's military class and, as a result, Catherine launched a coup, pushing Peter to abdicate just months after becoming czar.
Can President Trump be beset with such suicidal stupidity as to deny climate change and install an enemy of the earth as his environmental czar?
The Trump administration's regulatory czar claims agencies are ahead of schedule in achieving President Trump's order to cut two rules for every new rule issued.
Czar Nicholas I and Alexander Pushkin — revered for establishing the language and style of modern Russian literature — sparred repeatedly in St. Petersburg, the imperial capital.
The third is that President Trump's administration currently has no drug czar or health secretary, both of whom are essential to a plan of action.
Czar Nicholas's decision to take personal command of the Russian armed forces produced even greater disasters, discrediting both Nicholas and the monarchy as a whole.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's announcement on "Fox and Friends" Friday morning that Tom Homan would be his new "border czar" appears to have been premature.
" He broke news, announcing that former acting ICE head and current Fox News contributor Tom Homan will join his administration as a White House "border czar.
Andrew M. Cuomo entreated New Yorkers last week to "think big" again, invoking Robert Moses, New York's take-no-prisoners planning czar of the 20th century.
But while she reigned as porn czar, Houston prosecuted three cases, and in her first year in office, she received about 1,500 complaints regarding explicit material.
Former Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, a CNN contributor, is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and served as President Obama's "Ethics Czar" from 2009-11.
"A lot of those things are still coming together, so I can't give you a concrete answer right now," Google's VR czar Clay Bavor told me.
According to the job posting, the night czar will "shape London's future as a 225-hour city" and "champion the value of London's night time culture".
The publication's editor, Hu, is reported to have strong ties with top Communist Party brass, including a longtime association with China's anti-corruption czar, Wang Qishan.
Former Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, a CNN contributor, is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and served as President Obama's "ethics czar" from 2009-11.
Legal experts say the administration will be looking for someone steeped in administrative law and have floated Trump's regulatory czar Neomi Rao as a viable option.
The third czar, a rising star named Erik Neuenschwander, scrutinizes engineers' work to ensure they are following through on the agreements - even reviewing lines of code.
A czar is born Putin is due to relinquish power in 2024, but if he has his way, he may continue ruling Russia long after that.
Former Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, a CNN contributor, is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and served as President Obama's "Ethics Czar" from 203-11.
Norman Eisen, former White House ethics czar for President Obama, said that Trump is trying to delegitimize law enforcement agencies to discredit the investigations against him.
A point person, an incident commander, a czar, someone in the White House who can manage these various entities and claims and force movement and solution.
Wikipedia user Czar, a seasoned editor and the person behind the change, cited "much better color in more recent photo" as the reason for their edit.
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On Saturday, the campaign released an explanatory virus video from Ron Klain, Biden's former chief of staff and the czar who managed the 2014 Ebola crisis.
Yet it apparently wasn't enough for Taylor, who now risks alienating Miami to the point that the Heat czar Pat Riley pushes away from the table.
Key positions in the administration remain unfilled, even without nominees in the case of the White House's drug czar office and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
TMZ Sports spoke with CC's tattoo artist, Dan Czar ... who says he did a private 5-hour tat sesh at Clement's New Jersey home on Thursday.
But Norm Eisen, the chairman of CREW, who was Barack Obama's ethics czar, has also been thinking about post-Trump reconstruction, and he has some ideas.
"This is the phenomenon of the good czar," said Aleksei V. Makarkin, the deputy president of the Center for Political Technologies, a Moscow-based think tank.
"This is an anxiety-producing time," said Michael Botticelli, the former U.S. drug czar, who now runs the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center.
"This is an anxiety-producing time," said Michael Botticelli, the former U.S. drug czar, who now runs the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center.
Last January, he set another milestone for refugees to Canada: Ahmed Hussen was named the country's immigration czar, the first refugee in that powerful cabinet position.
Even Alexander II, the reformer czar who freed the serfs, outlawed Ukrainian books and magazines and forbade the use of the language in theaters and opera.
Richard A. Clarke, the White House counterterrorism czar under Clinton and Bush, later wrote that Freeh's F.B.I. had not done enough to seek out foreign terrorists.
Kaiser Wilhelm had left Germany for the Netherlands, and the Russian czar and czarina, with their children, had been murdered by the Bolsheviks the previous year.
Unhappy with administration's response The appointment of Pence came after the White House denied it was considering appointing a czar to oversee the administration's response outbreak.
White House officials had privately weighed appointing a czar to oversee the administration's response, sources inside the administration and advisers close to the White House said.
It was about Trump's buddy Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media czar, in his first years in London in the late '60s, when he revitalized The Sun.
Talk As the first drug czar who is himself in recovery from alcohol addiction, do you think your approach is different from those of your predecessors?
Former Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, a CNN contributor, is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and served as President Obama's "Ethics Czar" from 25.9-21.
In an interview with CNBC on Friday, White House economic czar Gary Cohn said that the main beneficiaries of a planned corporate-tax cut are workers.
Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, was never truly loved, and during the late days of his empire he became a forlorn and sad figure.
Former Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, a CNN contributor, is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and served as President Obama's "Ethics Czar" from 198913-22261.
Meanwhile, a 24-year-old former campaign staffer with no relevant experience was one of the leaders of the drug czar office for the past year.
The isolated czar suspected that Pushkin's popular poems damning despotism helped inspire an anti-monarchist uprising, which he crushed on the day he assumed the throne.
"America has long been unprepared for a dangerous pandemic, but the risks are especially high under President Trump," the former Ebola czar Ron Klain told Vox.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, appointed Ms. Lamé in November as the city's Night Czar, dedicated to fostering and promoting night life in the city.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's equality czar wants to remove words like "fatherland" and "brotherly" from the country's national anthem, following Canada and Austria in adopting gender neutral phrases.
The drive felled thousands of corrupt officials at many ranks of government as well as Xi's political rivals, including the once-powerful domestic security czar Zhou Yongkang.
First, BuzzFeed News revealed that the FBI is in possession of an explosive report that says Mikhail Lesin, Vladimir Putin's former media czar, was in fact murdered.
According to recent reports, Trump was considering creating a new post of "immigration czar" to coordinate enforcement efforts across federal agencies — with Kobach potentially at the helm.
The Trump White House has proposed gutting the White House's "drug czar," the Office of National Drug Control Policy, budget by 95 percent, effectively eliminating the agency.
Weiler is a co-sponsor of a new bill that aims to get rid of the "obscenity and pornography complaints ombudsman," also known as the porn czar.
I was intrigued about the Rasmussen result, so I did a bit of digging and also reached out to CNN polling czar Jennifer Agiesta for her take.
Evan Devine: Mountain Czar is our seventh album, and our first official EP. It just felt like the right thing to do with the time we had.
Trump has shown that a leadership style that might have worked during his previous life as a corporate czar does not translate well in the White House.
In the name of modernization, Robert Moses, New York's infamous urban czar from the 1930s through the 1960s, took a "meat ax" to the borough with glee.
And so I thought I'd start with, as the cyber czar, the lead official in the White House, responsible for our cybersecurity efforts, how are we doing?
He withdrew his nomination to serve as White House drug czar after receiving pushback over his role in the bill, which he argues hasn't been framed correctly.
Then, the new transparency minister — essentially Mr. Temer's anticorruption czar — resigned after another recording seemed to show that he had also tried to stymie the Petrobras inquiry.
There are so many agencies in the room that, at a early Wednesday event, White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce needed to read it from a list.
Biden offered remarks — added at the list minute — in his new role as "cancer czar" charged with charting a course to curing the disease at long last.
Over roughly the same span of time, Russia underwent two revolutions — and the czar and his family were murdered — which in turn triggered Finland's claim to independence.
"We have no reason not to be confident in the bright prospects for China's economic development," Liu He, China's economic czar, told the official Xinhua news agency.
There are so many agencies in the room that, at a early Wednesday event, White House Cybersecurity Czar Rob Joyce needed to read it from a list.
He also said he had arranged for the operations team to meet Saud el-Qahtani, the crown prince's powerful social media czar, before their departure, it said.
Michael Catanzaro, a partner at the lobbying firm CGCN Group, is the head of Trump's energy transition team, and has been mentioned as a possible energy czar.
Richard Baum, Trump's acting drug czar, said in an interview on Friday that the legal review had not hindered or slowed the administration's response to the epidemic.
I spread these elixirs across homemade pizza dough, a recipe I learned from another pizza guru, Anthony Falco, until recently the pizza czar at Roberta's in Bushwick.
He withdrew his nomination to serve as White House drug czar after receiving pushback over his role in the bill, which he argues hasn't been framed correctly.
A 2017 staging of Alexander Pushkin's "Boris Godunov," about a powerful regent and czar of Russia, was taken by some to be a representation of Mr. Orban.
"I believe in the wisdom and the good faith of the American people," Norm Eisen, White House ethics czar during the Obama administration, said on CNN International.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) talks with Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg (right) as Lu Wei, China's Internet czar, looks on, September 23, 2015 in Redmond, Washington.
The musical, powered by the popularity of the animated 1997 film, is about a Russian girl who may or may not be the daughter of a czar.
When the government of Czar Nicholas II announced the rationing of bread, tens of thousands of protesters, many of them women, filled the streets of St. Petersburg.
"These proposals embody an important principle: the character of regulation should match the character of a firm," said Randal Quarles, the Fed's regulatory czar, in prepared remarks.
The former Virginia attorney general visited the White House last week amid reports that Trump was searching for an "immigration czar" to coordinate policy across the government.
Tom Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania, to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — making Marino, should the Senate approve him, the nation's new drug czar.
According to reporting Monday night by The New York Times, here's the list of Kobach's demands for him to be willing to sign on as immigration czar: 224.
Guo cites the retirement of China's anti-corruption czar, Wang Qishan, as his most recent victory after alleging Wang and his family made millions in mysterious business dealings.
The finance ministry's anti-money laundering czar says the current investigations center on bribes paid in connection with the purchase by Pemex of a fertilizer plant from AHMSA.
On Tuesday neither the Mexican Finance Ministry's money-laundering czar Santiago Nieto, the Mexico attorney's general office or Lozoya's lawyer could confirm an arrest warrant had been issued.
"And that's a conservative estimate," said John Leonard, who is unofficially known as West Hollywood's weed czar and whose official job title is community and legislative affairs manager.
The ministry's money laundering czar Santiago Nieto said the case also had links to Brazilian builder Odebrecht, whose executives have testified about bribes to politicians across Latin America.
The man Ainge was addressing, Boston personnel czar Red Auerbach, had an opportunity to make a bold move that might have dramatically altered the history of the franchise.
Though in many ways, the Russian czar had befriended America, that didn't keep him from spying on his friend and the future sixth president of the United States.
The NFL Network host and football czar told TMZ Sports outside of Craig's this week how to beat all your buddies and coworkers in your drafts next month.
Bevan Dufty, who retired as San Francisco's "homeless czar" in November after serving for four years, is familiar with the impact large events have on the homeless population.
Others compared the Turkish coup to the failed Decembrist revolt in Russia in 1825 against Russian Czar Nicholas I, or the failed coup against Hitler in June 85033.
Tom Marino's (R-Pa.) nomination to serve as the nation's drug czar amid criticism that he led a bid to weaken enforcement of the nation's drug policing laws.
The rallies featured the slogan "He is not our czar," according to the AP. Navalny was among the more than 1,000 people who were arrested during the protests.
Russia: The Czar wants to be loved Putin's presidential inauguration -- for his fourth presidential term -- is on Monday, and we can already read the Russian headlines praising him.
However, as legend has it, the Bootheel was incorporated into Missouri because of the extensive landholdings of a single individual: the "Czar of the Valley," John Hardeman Walker.
The recent launch of the Night Tube and London Mayor Sadiq Khan's unconventional job advert seeking a 'night czar' reflect initiatives geared towards revitalising the city's nighttime economy.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is poised to make a recommendation to President Trump on who he should appoint as regulatory czar, Director Mick Mulvaney said.
Former cybersecurity czar Michael Daniel had publicly claimed this was the official policy, but Richardson did not feel that it had been properly written in an official capacity.
House Democrats held a hearing this week to examine the Trump administration's response to the overdose crisis and Trump's new drug czar, Jim Carroll, was the administration's witness.
Soon-Shiong has met with Trump and his team at least twice in the past few weeks about serving as a "health care czar" with a broad portfolio.
It named former standards editor and longtime manager Tim Quinson as the new ESG "czar," Bloomberg's term for people who coordinate and manage teams that cut across beats.
CreditCreditNathan Bajar for The New York Times Arthur Gelb, the human pinball machine who served for decades as The New York Times culture czar, had many fantastic stories.
The president's nominee for "drug czar" to run the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy withdrew from consideration in October and no replacement has been named.
That would put Liu on a similar standing with former economic czar Zhu Rongji, known for his tough handling of hyperinflation and the economic chaos in the 1990s.
Witte's ideas dovetailed with those of Czar Alexander III, who saw the growth of a Russian population in Siberia as a way to secure the country's eastern border.
It also criticized a scene on a cruise ship where "costumed dwarfs" pretend to be the czar, his family and Grigory Rasputin, the notorious monk who befriended them.
Mr. Escobar's "fate should serve as an example to others who traffic in death and misery," said the drug czar Lee Brown, amid celebrations in Bogotá and Washington.
As opera czar, Mr. Bergé coordinated the Bastille Opera; the Palais Garnier, the famous older opera house; and the Salle Favart, the traditional home of the Opéra Comique.
Even the royal family's trusted faith healer Rasputin, the ogre of conventional wisdom, largely gets a pass for sagely advising the czar that war would prompt his downfall.
"The opioid crisis demands that the next drug czar is solely focused on getting communities across the country the help they desperately need," he said in a statement.
By the 1860s, having lost the Crimean War to Britain, and fearful that Britain would seize Alaska in any future conflict, the czar decided to strike a deal.
NBC News had previously confirmed that the election briefing by Shelby Pierson, the DNI's election security czar, angered Trump, but had not confirmed the content of the briefing.
The February Revolution (now falling in March, given a different calendar) deposed the czar and replaced him with a provisional government that introduced liberal reforms like universal suffrage.
Subject headings included Abyssinia; Bathtub Trust; Jones ("Mother"); Kinetophone; Mental Telegraphy; Nicholas, Czar of Russia; Oleomargarine; Pujo Committee of House of Representatives; Social Evil; and White Slave Traffic.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the years after 9/11, former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke warned Congress that the country needed more expansive spying powers to prevent another catastrophe.
Russia, reeling from the previous year's revolution, endured a vicious civil war, punctuated by the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family in the dead of night.
If you were health czar for the day, and had the power to reform the ACA based on what you know about health insurance now, what would you fix?
The probe, led by the European Union's antitrust czar Margrethe Vestager, is reportedly looking into accusations that Google has used its dominance in the mobile marketplace to its advantage.
Shades of Pink Floyd and King Crimson appeared as Mastodon tackled long-form, spacey tracks like "The Czar" and "The Last Baron" that take a listener on a journey.
Trump declared a national public health emergency over the crisis in October, and calls have emerged for an opioids "czar" to lead crisis response efforts in the last year.
After much public pressure, Trump declared a national public health emergency over the crisis in October, while further public outrage called for an opioids "czar" to lead the effort.
Prince Muqrin was removed as crown prince in April 2015 by his half brother King Salman in favor of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a counterterrorism czar and interior minister.
A new regulatory czar could help restore our faith that the government is once again taking seriously the idea that government should work for, not against, the American people.
There are also questions about the tenure of Wang Qishan, the country's anti-corruption czar, who at 69 is considered too old for promotion, according to an unwritten rule.
Then cue new organizational czar Tom Coughlin's glorious return to the sidelines, which I will resist cheering because Jacksonville doesn't produce cold enough weather to freeze Coughlin's face. 27.
Is this an attack by Trump, Rubio and Cruz; a challenge to states' rights; or a use of federal preemption to create an "insurance czar" to regulate insurance companies?
Describing the blast as a terrorist attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose image as Israel's security czar has been dented in recent months, vowed to track down those responsible.
Hellawell, a 75-year-old former police chief constable and government drugs czar, had previously pledged to step down if a majority of independent investors did not back him.
Some scenes are surreal, as when the Romanov Grand Duke Alexis, son of Czar Alexander II, hunts on the Great Plains alongside Buffalo Bill and Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, is so determined to rejuvenate the nighttime economy that he recently appointed a night czar, charged with injecting new life into the city's night life.
On Twitter, Trump announced that Tom Marino was withdrawing his name as drug czar, blamed any increase in health care premiums on Democrats and touted his planned border wall.
For you super nerds, this news could be a nice treat given the recent-ish departure of legend Sal Saghoian, Apple's automation Czar, and the elimination of his position.
The departure of Facebook's policy and communications czar, Elliot Schrage, comes as the company navigates a difficult period marked by scandals over foreign election meddling and consumer data privacy.
He was nominated to be the president's Drug Czar but withdrew after a joint CBS "60 Minutes" and Washington Post report revealed he took nearly $100,000 from pharmaceutical lobbyists.
The climate change czar in Alberta says the provincial government's climate change plan is changing the debate over environmental policy in the oil-heavy province, the Canadian Press reports.
The White House's "Ebola czar," Ron Klain, was notorious for pressing agencies to review potential weaknesses in strategy, demonstrate that they were thinking around corners and test underlying presumptions.
Even before the popular revolt that led to the abdication of Czar Nicholas II, there was a growing sense that the days of old were drawing to an end.
But the immigration czar position wouldn't require Senate confirmation, and Kobach is seeking influence over cabinet officials who have, at times, tried to push back on Trump's immigration agenda.
As secretary of state, John Kerry took up the cause of the centers with Liu Yandong, who was a vice premier until this year and China's top culture czar.
Dennis Bozanich, a Santa Barbara County official charged with cannabis implementation who has become known as the cannabis czar, says the essential oil odor control has been largely successful.
Inside the immigration agencies, there is a persistent rumor that Mr. Trump may yet name an immigration czar to better coordinate — or, some believe, control — the sprawling immigration bureaucracy.
Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Cuccinelli in recent days to help coordinate policy across agencies, akin to the "immigration czar" job that the president has considered creating for months.
The list included the close aide, Saud al-Qahtani, who officially served as the royal court's media czar, but appeared to have overseen the operation to seize Mr. Khashoggi.
That includes a "drug czar" to steer a broader strategy on opioids and a secretary of health and human services who would tailor policies and identify sources of funding.
The last czar, Nicholas II, is alternately seen as a weak master who either foolishly allowed the autocracy to founder or who failed to ride with a democratizing tide.
The tradition of decorating eggs dates back tens of thousands of years, and yet for Czar Alexander III, there was always one problem: Eggs simply weren't built to last.
But as the movie, "Matilda," chronicles, this was no inconsequential wardrobe malfunction, but one that led to a love affair between the future czar and the ballerina, Matilda Kshesinskaya.
In February 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated in favor of a provisional government headed by the liberal Alexander Kerensky and consisting of progressives, socialists and the more moderate Communists.
Mr. Azar (rhymes with "pay czar") joined Lilly in 2007 and worked there for nearly 10 years before he left the Indianapolis-based company in January of this year.
Democrats have warned that amount falls far short of what is needed and have also urged the White House to appoint a "czar" who could coordinate a national response.
The person most responsible for creating the czar position, Representative Tim Murphy, Republican of Pennsylvania, a practicing psychologist, also objects to Dr. McCance-Katz's nomination, but for another reason.
Achieving all this requires leadership, but the White House, which ordinarily would be best positioned to address these issues, recently pushed out its cybersecurity czar and eliminated the role.
He tells that story by directing our attention to three individuals: the engineer and water czar William Mulholland, the filmmaker D.W. Griffith and the Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
The district attorneys of Nassau and Suffolk Counties in the 1960s branded Mr. Franzese the czar of bookmaking and loan sharking on Long Island after raids on illegal operations.
The amnesiac title character of "Anastasia," who may or may not be the long-lost daughter of the last Russian czar, isn't alone in suffering a serious identity crisis.
In college, at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she majored in journalism and photography, she interned at Vogue with Sally Singer, the magazine's features czar.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in particular, appointed a student loan "czar," who has collected thousands of complaints from borrowers and has published an annual report on student loans.
George was a prominent gynecologist in Los Angeles and was referred to as "the city's venereal-disease czar and a fixture in its A-list demimonde" by Vanity Fair.
Lori Ajax, the head of California's Bureau of Cannabis Control who is sometimes called the state's cannabis czar, described 2018 as "rough" both for the regulators and the industry.
Coronavirus czar The White House has argued that its response has been aggressive and fulsome, with travel restrictions and quarantine procedures put into place, a task force helmed by Azar and, at least to this point, more than a week without a new case of the virus cropping up in the US. Despite public denials, White House officials have privately weighed appointing a czar to oversee the administration's response to the outbreak.
Katie Hill, a California Democrat, on Friday whether he planned to return to the Trump administration as immigration czar, Homan said he had not accepted any position with the administration.
KERNEN: DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE LIKE A CZAR TO IMMEDIATELY DO THINGS THAT OPEN UP DOORS TO DO ALL THE OTHER THINGS SO THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET IT DONE?
Sam Kass, the former White House chef and food czar, fired back, saying that people like Pollan dismiss steps forward because they fall short of their "idyllic" vision of farming.
Four sources told Reuters on Wednesday that Rafael Ramirez, a former oil czar turned U.N. diplomat, had been sacked from his post amid a broad oil industry anti-corruption campaign.
Daya (Dascha Polanco) deliberately forces her girlfriend, Daddy (Vicci Martinez), to overdose, and takes her place as the prison's drug czar in the final act an already messed-up tale.
Vladimir Putin's former media czar Mikhail Lesin was found dead in his Washington, DC, hotel room in 2015 with blunt force trauma to the head, neck, legs, arms, and torso.
Czar told me that during the party Corbally tried to set her up alone with President Kennedy in the library, even as the first lady entertained guests in another room.
Why this matters: Soon-Shiong, the world's richest physician who has talked with President Trump about being a "health care czar," has been criticized for inflating his own business claims.
Shareholder Aberdeen Asset Management said it was no surprise that Hellawell, a 74-year-old former police chief constable and government drugs czar, had been re-elected given Ashley's support.
Why it matters: Browner is a well-connected figure in green circles after heading the EPA under President Clinton and serving as the White House "climate czar" under President Obama.
The finance ministry's anti-money laundering czar has said the allegations center on bribes paid in connection with the $475 million purchase by Pemex of a fertilizer plant from AHMSA.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with China's propaganda czar over the weekend, continuing his efforts to build goodwill in a country where Facebook and other social media are officially banned.
The arrests of Del Pino and Martinez have brought more attention to Rafael Ramirez, who was Venezuela's all-powerful oil czar for a decade and under whom both men ascended.
"They're not saying she's going to voluntarily subject herself to ethics rules to be nice," Norm Eisen, former ethics czar under Obama, explained to Politico of Ivanka's White House role.
The city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, wants to come to its rescue by advertising for a "night czar" — and whatever such a tyrannical-sounding role entails has set off people's imaginations.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's anti-corruption czar withdrew his candidacy from next month's senate election due to what he said was widespread vote-buying.
Some lawmakers have urged Obama to name a Zika "czar" to head U.S. efforts against the virus, but Fauci said he sees no need right now for such an appointment.
Then-White House cybersecurity czar Tom Bossert said during a press conference in December that the U.S. agreed with several other countries' assessments that North Korea was responsible for WannaCry.
A regulatory advocacy group is calling on the Senate to reject Neomi Rao, President Trump's nominee to be the nation's so-called "regulatory czar" ahead of her confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Gavin Newsom named an "energy czar" to develop what he termed a backup plan in case the bankruptcy process does not produce a satisfactory approach to improving PG&E's operations.
The idea of relinquishing Puerto Rico's recovery efforts to a recovery "czar" or to a more powerful Oversight Board fails to heed important lessons in the aftermath of other disasters.
"While the FRA is relying on anecdotes to argue that it would improve safety, there is no data to support its assertion," says John Graham, a former U.S. regulatory czar.
In creating the Night Czar position, Mr. Khan follows cities including San Francisco, Amsterdam and Berlin, which have hired night mayors to look after the night life of their cities.
In 1914, just before the Russian Revolution, Czar Nicholas II bought Leonardo da Vinci's "Benois Madonna" for $1.5 million, or about $21 million at today's prices, in a private transaction.
After the revolution in 1917, when he assumed responsibility for the czar, who was by then in captivity, he must have thought of his brother, how he could avenge him.
The Saudi government has also removed a few senior officials from their posts, including Saud al-Qahtani, a close associate of the prince who was the kingdom's social media czar.
"He is the czar who got spooked by a father demanding to know why his son is dead," Slobodan Vaskovic, a local investigative journalist and blogger, said of Mr. Dodik.
It diverted the highway from running straight through the middle of Brooklyn Heights, as Robert Moses, the city's all-powerful planning czar back then, had wanted but community groups protested.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, called on the Trump administration on Sunday to appoint a "czar" to be in charge of coordinating federal agencies to quickly reunite families.
For Anthony Falco, the former oven czar at Roberta's in Brooklyn and now a pizza consultant with clients all over the world, two memories linger, and they were formed simultaneously.
In 2017, a commission of the Russian Orthodox Church investigated the assassinations of Czar Nicholas II and his family and several members concluded that they had been Jewish ritual murders.
The idea of a "night mayor" or "night czar," a person responsible for the after-hours economy, caught on in Europe after Amsterdam created the position of nachtburgemeester in 2014.
And Compass Pathways is being advised by Tom Insel, the former director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, and David Nutt, the former UK government drug czar, among others. 
A mystical adviser to Czar Nicholas II and assassinated 100 years ago, Rasputin made headlines more recently when opinion writers likened him to Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is considering appointing a coronavirus "czar" to coordinate the U.S. response to the disease, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing two officials familiar with the matter.
Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism czar, was working as a consultant for M.B.Z. (as he's mostly known outside his country) and had gotten used to impromptu calls like this.
As Scott Evertz, Mr. Bush's former AIDS czar, told me in January, Mr. Bush didn't do that because he knew it would hamstring Pepfar, the president's signature H.I.V./AIDS initiative.
White House cyber czar Rob Joyce has, however, repeatedly said that the Kaspersky Lab software's ability to access files on systems could be a potential way to compromise a system.
Many families had a portrait of Czar Nicholas II on the wall, often the one by Valentin Serov, alongside the icons and a faded photo of the old manor house.
Clarke, a counterterrorism czar to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is perhaps best known for offering an unequivocal public apology for Washington's inability to prevent the 9/11 attacks.
Beijing (CNN)China has sentenced the country's former internet czar and top censor to 20013 years in prison, after he was found guilty of corruption, a court statement said Tuesday.
The great-great-great-granddaughter of both the czar and Pushkin, she remembers her formidable grandmother being related to practically every royal in Europe, including Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Many analysts see growing signs of Wang Qishan, China's fearsome former anti-corruption czar, becoming the new vice president and being given major responsibilities that may include China-US relations.
Maduro's consolidation of power began with the 2017 defeat of opposition protests, then a purge this year of former Chavez loyalists critical of him, like former oil czar Rafael Ramirez.
Under Botticelli, Obama's drug czar, the office proposed the first drug control budget in decades that would have spent more on treatment and prevention programs than law enforcement and interdiction.
On May 2000, 024.173, the coronation of Czar Nicholas II was held in Moscow, and Charles Henry Dow published an index of industrial stocks for the first time in New York.
Under Obama drug czar Michael Botticelli, the office proposed the first drug control budget in decades that would have spent more on treatment and prevention programs than law enforcement and interdiction.
The painting — titled "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," depicts Russia&aposs first czar cradling his dying son after striking him in a fit of rage.
Seventy-year-old Azim Hasham Premji, known as the Czar of Indian IT, has a $16.2 billion fortune, having inherited Western India Vegetable Products from his father Mohamed H. Hasham Premji.
A desiccated muppet valiantly struggles through tech fail after tech fail to eventually be anointed as Donald Trump's cyber czar and, maybe, finally have a chance at becoming a real boy.
He also proposed creating a new undersecretary of Space Commerce (what many have referred to as a "space czar"), who would oversee all these advanced operations in space and propose regulations.
Canada's privacy czar, Daniel Therrien, announced plans last month to file suit against Facebook after his office determined the company had violated the country's laws governing user consent over personal information.
While the Attorney General and others in the administration may have the legal marijuana industry in their crosshairs, a drug czar should think about the rifts such a fight would generate.
As drug czar, Carroll would coordinate the administration's response to an epidemic of opioid overdoses that is killing tens of thousands of Americans annually and the problem of illegal drug use.
Gene Wilder's original Willy Wonka is equal parts magnetic and terrifying, a twinkling-eyed candy czar who is totally cool with torturing misbehaving children and losing his shit on a boat.
Tom Marino withdrew from consideration for the nation's drug czar, following an investigation that detailed his role in pushing for a law that weakened DEA enforcement during a growing opioid crisis.
It's difficult to say what impact, good or ill, Ivanka Trump wrought with her unofficial gig as America's trafficking czar, in part because there is so little work in this work.
Installing an ethics czar during the transition period, like Obama did once he took office, has never been done in the past but could ensure that these principles were adhered to.
Hellawell, a former police chief constable and government drugs czar who has been Sports Direct chairman for nine years, is criticized by the investor advisory groups for his lack of leadership.
Ariel Palitz, who was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio's Office of Nightlife, follows the footsteps of London's night czar, Amsterdam's "nachtburgemeester," and similar late-night leaders in other European cities.
The Russian Revolution occurred because the czar banned vodka in 1914: Since the beloved spirit was a state-run business, the treasury went broke in World War I. Why stop there?
Ken Cuccinelli, the agency's acting director, who gained a reputation as an immigration czar for the Trump administration, said the proposal will allow more time to screen applicants for national security.
The president would be fascinated by the Kaiser and enjoy a strange sense that he is not unique: He aspires to be an American czar but may be an American kaiser.
The Rapid Intervention Group was authorized by Prince Mohammed and overseen by Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide whose official job was media czar at the royal court, American officials said.
What made the auto bailouts work, more or less successfully, was central coordination and strong leadership, from "car czar" Rattner and his chief lieutenant, Ron Bloom, who tackled the labor side.
Appointing a "coordinator" allowed Trump to fulfill an increasingly urgent call from lawmakers to put a trusted public health official at the center of the White House response as a czar.
Jenkinson, a mercer by profession, had already held private audiences with two of the world's most powerful rulers: the Ottoman sultan, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Russian czar, Ivan the Terrible.
The White House had been weighing the appointment of a coronavirus czar in the lead up of the announcement as it faced criticism over its inconsistent messaging during the emerging crisis.
A century after the Russian Revolution, Czar Nicholas's son and daughter remain unburied — even as the embalmed body of the Romanovs' chief antagonist, Lenin, continues to attract visitors in the capital.
Earlier on Tuesday, CBS announced a management shake-up at its entertainment division, with Glenn Geller stepping down as president and Kelly Kahl, the network's longtime scheduling czar, taking his place.
John McAfee, the onetime software magnate and runner-up for the Libertarian nomination for president, says that Anonymous is pushing for him to be named cybersecurity czar in the Trump administration.
He has called for the appointment of a "Zika czar" and organized numerous press conferences to bash Republicans for not fully granting President Obama's request for $1.9 billion in new funding.
Vestager, who was given an expanded portfolio as EU digital czar in September, has already opened an investigation into whether Amazon's (AMZN) use of data from independent sellers violates competition rules.
She started to talk to White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney about bringing on an immigration czar to coordinate the administration's response -- and take some of the heat off herself.
Over more than 15 years, various drafts gradually mutated into the libretto for an opera, "Pushkin: Poet and Czar," which had its debut in concert form in Moscow on Feb. 4.
"The risk of Zika transmission in the US will go up," said Ron Klain, the former "Ebola czar" who's now general counsel at a venture capital firm, without additional federal funding.
Rao, currently the Trump administration's regulatory czar, is widely seen as a rising star in conservative legal circles and could be among those considered for the Supreme Court down the line.
Whether Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Trump, became the opioids "czar" this week has become a amusingly hot topic, even making it to the editorial pages of the New York Times.
According to Christie's, Czar Peter the Great of Russia was so impressed with the museum that he bought the whole thing for the St. Petersburg Kunstkammer, the first public museum in Russia.
Hopefuls shouldn't even bother with the idea of applying unless they've reached the lofty title of "a Czar of cool" — so if you're just a lowly Baron of swag, forget about it.
This czar — working with a team of deputy czars from both parties — can identify packages of rules and regulations for elimination and submit them to Congress for an up or down vote.
Facebook — Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg met with China's propaganda czar over the weekend, as part of a China visit aimed at opening up the China market for the social network.
The most recent high-profile sweep saw Diego Salazar, a relative of former oil czar Rafael Ramirez, detained on Friday on charges of helping launder some around 1.35 billion euros to Andorra.
If people get Ebola in that window, it also opens the door to rumors about the vaccine not working, said Ron Klain, the White House "Ebola czar" during the West African outbreak.
The second panel will also feature Tom Homan, the former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a staunch Trump ally whom Trump earlier this month floated as a possible border czar.
In 2009, Jon Stewart devoted a segment of "The Daily Show" to Ms. Carlson, showing clips of her saying she had to Google words like czar and ignoramus to learn their definitions.
In front of Russia's federal archives is a sculpture of Lincoln shaking hands with Czar Alexander II. The statue was unveiled in 2011 to mark 150 years since Russia's serfs were freed.
The officials had offered to come to Washington to prepare for meetings scheduled later this month between China's trade czar, Liu He, and the U.S. trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, the FT said.
The only sale by a Dutch national museum to the Germans was a forced one facilitated by Mr. Hannema in his role as museum czar, according to the historian Lynn H. Nicholas.
Vice President Mike Pence is the official crisis czar, but Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, has his own response team working on, among other things, outreach to the private sector.
Some conservatives — Kansas secretary of state and former White House voter fraud czar Kris Kobach, National Review's Rich Lowry — have cited the North Carolina scandal as evidence that voter fraud does happen.
At the time, Mr. Trump was convinced that Mr. Kobach would have a hard time winning Senate confirmation for the position, and the two discussed the possible creation of an immigration czar.
That reading of Cossack tradition, which many still associate with pogroms and brutal service to an expanding Russian empire under the czar, has helped Mr. Melikhov win unlikely support from Russian liberals.
Shuman Ghosemajumder, the new global head of artificial intelligence for F5 Networks and Google&aposs former "click-fraud czar," is one of the people working to understand what companies are up against.
The Obama administration's widely praised response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 involved a flurry of administrative activity across departments and, ultimately, the appointment of an "epidemic czar" to oversee the response.
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The White House is considering appointing a coronavirus "czar" to coordinate the U.S. response to the disease, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing two officials familiar with the matter.
"If (the President) decides that it'd be right for the country for me to serve, I'd be honored to do so," Kobach said, when asked if he would take the czar position.
And on Wednesday, top aides debated publicly whether the administration would need a czar to coordinate a government response as the president announced a rare evening news conference and attacked the media.
Tom Cole, a top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, expressed some interest in a White House-appointed coronavirus czar, but cautioned against putting someone with a political background in the role.
According to one persistent rumor, never substantiated, the heads of Czar Nicholas and his empress could not be found because they had been delivered to Lenin as proof of the Romanovs' eradication.
Peter Scully, a deputy county executive and Suffolk's water czar, said that the sewer trunk alone would run to $45 million, and that connections to several thousand houses could reach $450 million.
Tom Marino (R-Pa.) to serve as the nation's drug czar, after a Washington Post-60 Minutes investigation suggested he led a bid to weaken enforcement of the nation's drug policing laws.
The system is staring at a potential deficit of 603 billion euros by 2025 if no action is taken, according to a landmark report issued by France's pension czar, Jean-Paul Delevoye.
Transcripts are coming In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, House Intelligence Chairman and impeachment czar Adam Schiff said transcripts of the closed-door depositions could start to be released next week.
The Russian bureaucrats' strike stood in contrast to their reaction to the revolution of February 703, when the czar fell and Russia became a republic, which they greeted with enthusiasm and relief.
Tom Marino (R-Pa.) to serve as the nation's drug czar, after a Washington Post-6900 Minutes investigation suggested he led a bid to weaken enforcement of the nation's drug policing laws.
"The benefit of the agreement is that it gives us a number of years to look at a whole range of issues," said Richard L. Kauffman, the state's so-called energy czar.
Mr. Cotton has essentially been Mr. Cuomo's infrastructure czar, overseeing the construction of a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge, and now at the Port Authority, the rebuilding of La Guardia Airport.
Bolstering the state are groups like the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, addiction psychiatrist and American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Sally Satel, and Richard Nixon's former "drug czar" Dr. Robert DuPont.
And Facebook's news quality czar needs to have a staff that includes both journalists to manually review some stories and programmers to write software to automatically detect fake and spammy news articles.
The nation's drug czar, Michael Botticelli, has led a well-intentioned campaign to eradicate feelings of shame in addicted people by, in part, likening addiction to cancer, a disease outside of people's control.
To take just one of the more outlandish claims, the bishop hinted that the grave of Nicholas's father, Czar Alexander III, had been vandalized and his bones interred in place of his son.
"They have all kinds of strange ideas why they are not the right remains," said Paul E. Kulikovsky, 55, a businessman in Moscow who is a great-great-grandson of Czar Alexander III.
"The main distinction with this plan is the general acknowledgment that substance use is a public health issue," White House drug czar Michael Botticelli told me in 2014, speaking to his office's budget.
Amsterdam pioneered this position when they created the nachtburgemeester in 2014, and it has since spread across Europe; Amy Lamé was announced as London's first-ever Night Czar in November of last year.
Because someone else already is already serving as Trump's regulatory czar, there's simply no need for him to still serve in the Trump administration, Icahn said in a resignation letter he posted online.
In London, for instance, Amy Lamé has used her clout to help protect local LGBTQ venues, while Amsterdam's night czar Mirik Milan helped set up ten new 24-hour clubs in his city.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities have arrested more than 4,800 people in a two-month-old campaign against drugs and that number could more than double, the country's drug czar said on Tuesday.
White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce opined that the time has come to get rid of Social Security numbers, so intimately tied to credit scores, which can't be changed even after identity theft.
The 1917 demonstrations by women demanding "bread and peace" sparked other strikes and protests, which led to the abdication of Czar Nicholas II four days later and granted women the right to vote.
That's become less of an issue as the third season begins in the show's languid yet wholly satisfying fashion, heralding the much-anticipated arrival of Gus Fring, the drug czar/fast-food entrepreneur.
Be a leader in rhetoricOne way a drug czar can help advance drug policy in the US is to ensure all relevant agencies speak in one voice and that that voice speaks honestly.
A health care czar and an entire team were dedicated to getting Obamacare approved and it would be wise to dedicate a new team in the White House to oversee its further rollout.
President Trump's nominee to be the nation's so-called "regulatory czar" told members of the Senate at her confirmation hearing Wednesday that she thinks Trump's two-for-one rule for regulations can work.
The bigger picture: With the White House reluctant to institute additional sanctions on Russia, White House Cyber Czar Rob Joyce pointed to Kaspersky as an example of the Trump administration taking Russia seriously.
Why it matters, from Axios' Steve LeVine: This election won't be competitive, but it could be Putin's last and he needs a big finish to burnish his legacy as a modern-day czar.
However, the creation of an Ebola "Czar" was an example of the need to coordinate across the Departments of Defense, State, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and others from the White House.
CAIRO — Egypt's anti-corruption czar thought he was just doing his job when he estimated how much endemic graft had cost his country: About $76 billion, he said, mostly in corrupt land deals.
Jim Carroll, a deputy to White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE, will leave his post to become the administration's drug czar, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday.
Several lawmakers are pushing to repeal or revisit a law critics say enables the flow of deadly and addictive opioids, hours after President Trump's drug czar nominee withdrew his name amid the controversy.
In announcing his candidacy on Saturday, he lashed out at Mr. Sisi's record and pledged to appoint Hisham Geneina, a onetime anticorruption czar fired by Mr. Sisi, as vice president for human rights.
And the president's choice to be the nation's drug czar withdrew after reports that, as a congressman, he did the bidding of the pharmaceutical industry and undermined efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.
So when we watch him snap at his beautiful young wife, Natalya (Jenny Leona), or bristle as the czar (Gene Gillette), his personal censor, publicly humiliates him, there's not much reason to care.
Sophia Perovskaya, an aristocrat, was executed for a political crime after leading the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II. Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men.
Their cause recently received a big boost when a new law created a federal mental health "czar" to help overhaul the system and bridge more than 100 federal agencies concerned with mental health.
"We used that angle — he's one of the richest men in the country, has been appointed by Mr. Trump as the so-called jobs czar," said Darryl Houshower, vice president of the local.
The administration's new initiatives show a focus on treatment, which White House drug czar Michael Botticelli hailed as a shift from just a few years ago, when addiction was not considered a disease.
The main objection from the church is that because Czar Nicholas II and his wife were canonized in 2000, the movie is an insult to the faithful, which is a crime in Russia.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar spent Wednesday telling lawmakers that he was in charge of the response, and there was no need to appoint an additional czar to lead the efforts.
One of the producers of a historical film about Czar Nicholas II recently told the Russian news website The Insider about receiving a gym bag full of cash from a Putin administration intermediary.
Fellow hosts included former Obama "Green Czar" Van Jones, former Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter and former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (Ga.), who has since jumped to Fox News.
The restoration experts used baby soap and water to wash the paint off and reveal a "remarkably intact and preserved" portrait of Czar Nicholas II, signed by the Russian artist Ilya Galkin Savich.
One of those Saudi officials was Saud al-Qahtani, a close ally of the crown prince who was removed from his post as the kingdom's social media czar after Mr. Khashoggi was killed.
When the young men were sent to the West, their instructions were clear, if daunting: They were to learn all they could in order to drag their country into an industrialized, czar-beating era.
Jim Carroll, President Trump's nominee for drug czar, or head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, is set to come to New Haven on Monday, according to New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.
" And it's hard to argue an ensemble movie will not drum up more money than the more intimate film the screenwriters say they envisioned, before Marvel movie czar Kevin Feige proposed adapting "Civil War.
Catch up quick: Bain-backed crypto startup Basis closed; Facebook's blockchain group is on a hiring spree to reinvent money; and the Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto czar signaled some flexibility on token offerings.
Aside from appointing Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer, as his cyber security czar, and a terse, awkward December meeting with Tech CEOs, mentions of any form of technology and innovation have faded into the background.
Alexis Rodzianko, whose great-grandfather was speaker of the pre-revolutionary Russian parliament and pushed Czar Nicholas II to abdicate but later regretted it, sees the revolution as a calamity that threw Russia backward.
Why it matters: Nadler did not disclose many details about the inquiries Norman Eisen, a former Obama administration ethics czar and watchdog, and Barry Berke, a prominent criminal defense attorney, would be involved with.
CAIRO — A military court on Tuesday sentenced a former government anticorruption czar to five years in prison over incendiary claims about documents said to incriminate Egypt's leaders, his lawyers and state news media said.
This came after a campaign mounted by the government backed by the powerful multinational Grupo Gruma that dominates the production and sale of tortilla flour and whose director is known as the Tortilla Czar.
It was only when a revolt in the House broke the leadership of "Czar" Joseph Cannon, a Republican who served alongside President Teddy Roosevelt, that the speaker lost his overarching control of the body.
The State Internet Information Office, under "internet czar" Lu Wei, is actually in charge of internet policy in China, he points out, but these rules were put out by the technology ministry and SARFT.
The focus on opioids and the political lobbying efforts that helped make these dangerous drugs so prevalent in America has already cost Congressman Tom Marino his shot to become the nation's new drug czar.
Last week the campaign added its latest "tiger": Lu Wei, China's former internet czar and mastermind of the country's sprawling online censorship system, who was placed under investigation for "suspected serious violations of discipline."
But Daniel, the Obama cyber czar, surmised that the Trump administration could face an even tougher recruitment challenge because of its lack of organization and the perception of a White House embroiled in chaos.
"If the level of your interim clearance is Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), the highest level, then you get to see the highest level information," notes former White House "ethics czar" Norman Eisen.
According to the documents, Mr. Ramírez del Cid was one of the three who stayed behind the night before the antidrug czar was killed in 2009 to place the call to the drug lord.
With Covid-19, "many people in the US will at some point, either this year or next, get exposed to this virus," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization czar announced this month.
Kobach reportedly put in a detailed request about the conditions under which he'd take a job as immigration czar, a role that Trump has been floating to coordinate immigration policy across disparate government agencies.
S. civilian government systems are very weak," Richard Clarke, cybersecurity czar for the Bush and Clinton administrations, told VICE News, "but I also believe they will go after private sector companies and critical infrastructure.
At her main public forum in Rostov, she cited the Decembrists, a group of early-19th-century aristocrats exiled for trying to challenge the absolute power of the czar, as one of her inspirations.
Any day now, the Federal Trade Commission is expected to impose a $5 billion fine on the company, but that is not enough; nor is Facebook's offer to appoint some kind of privacy czar.
They say consternation is rooted in Azar's insecurity about his role and concerns that he could be undercut by Gottlieb, who had been rumored as a shortlist pick for a so-called coronavirus czar.
In the scene, a ballerina exposes her breast to the young Nicholas II, who was to become the last czar of Russia, during a performance on the stage of St. Petersburg's storied Mariinsky Theater.
Among the highlights: Margrethe Vestager, whose billion-dollar fines have made her loathed by Silicon Valley, assumed more power than ever, expanding her portfolio to become the equivalent of the E.U.'s digital czar.
The administration could also appoint a person (like a Covid-219 "czar") to oversee coordination between the many departments of the federal government (Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and others) to aid the response.
Tom Marino, Trump's first appointee for the "drug czar" position, withdrew his name after it came out that he had backed legislation restricting law enforcement from clamping down on diverted opioids and pill mills.
Vice Premier Liu He, the country's economic czar, has repeatedly said they contribute more than half of China's tax revenues, 60 percent of its economic output and nearly three-quarters of its technological innovation.
Cuban told Business Insider that he'd be willing to serve as Trump's "entrepreneurial czar," on the condition that he would have "autonomy" and wouldn't have to serve as a prop for the Trump administration.
Marino was nominated as Trump's drug czar last year, but he withdrew from consideration after reports described his role in passing a law that critics say hindered the government's response to the opioid epidemic.
The Justice Department had enlisted a new antitrust czar, Makan Delrahim, who just months prior to his appointment had publicly stated that AT&T's purchase of Time Warner shouldn't be an issue for regulators.
At a news conference last week prior to briefing Trump on the crisis, Kellyanne Conway, the White House's opioid crisis czar, warned of the risks of illicit fentanyl turning up in other drugs, including marijuana.
Congress needs to quit wrangling over funding to fight the Zika virus so the United States can start doing proper mosquito control and accelerate vaccine research, Ron Klain, the nation's former Ebola czar said Wednesday.
After punishing thousands of officials, including the former domestic security czar and two retired top generals, his massive campaign seems to be losing steam -- and attracting criticism over Party investigators' extrajudicial and often brutal methods.
Ben Brantley, The New York Times The amnesiac title character of Anastasia, who may or may not be the long-lost daughter of the last Russian czar, isn't alone in suffering a serious identity crisis.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's data protection czar will not take Microsoft to court after the U.S. company agreed to adopt recommendations for improving data processing transparency for its Windows 10 operating system, the government agency said.
" In the 40-page ruling, Judge Walker denied being the "early voting czar" but said "throwing up roadblocks in front of younger voters does not remotely serve the public interest…abridging voter rights never does.
At the end of 291, both Queen Victoria and Czar Nicholas II still sat on their respective thrones, William McKinley was the 21899th American President, and Germany had not even been unified for 21900 years.
LCOc2180.9 CLc23 "This will give the country important oxygen to go forward," added Perez, a former industry association leader who became economy czar in February, replacing a hard-line socialist who lasted only a month.
The shake-up followed news coverage of police files showing that top police officials ordered the killings of a Honduran antidrug czar, Julián Arístides González Irías, in 2009 and his top adviser two years later.
The FIEL Allegations Four major companies sought to recruit me while I was CEO of Nissan, including Ford (by Bill Ford) and General Motors (by Steve Rattner, the then-Car Czar under President Barack Obama).
Vice President Mike Pence, who was appointed the nation's coronavirus czar despite his abominable management of an H.I.V. outbreak as governor of Indiana, announced that the C.D.C. would lift the rationing of coronavirus testing materials.
It was a rebuke to the actions of the urban planning czar Robert Moses, whose aggressive (and largely unchecked) decades-long building spree destroyed the character of dozens of neighborhoods — if not the neighborhoods themselves.
The FIEL Allegations Four major companies sought to recruit me while I was CEO of Nissan, including Ford (by Bill Ford) and General Motors (by Steve Rattner, the then-Car Czar under President Barack Obama).
Mr. Homan, who has been a strong supporter of Mr. Trump's hard-line immigration policies in his own appearances on Fox, would become a "border czar" working out of the White House, the president said.
The killing of the czar and his family in that cellar in Yekaterinburg was an earth-shattering event, a replay of the French Revolution, but for Lenin it must also have been a personal matter.
"They understand pretty well that they should ask the czar for the favor, and if he is kind enough and they are lucky enough, their problems will be fixed," said Nikolai Petrov, a political scientist.
The accusations he made were explosive — he attacked Wang Qishan, Xi Jinping's corruption czar, and Meng Jianzhu, the secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, another prominent player in Xi's anti-corruption campaign.
Its ideas on trade don't seem to have evolved at all from those expressed in a white paper circulated by Wilbur Ross, now the commerce secretary, and Peter Navarro, now the trade czar, in 2016.
The symbolic role of the boss — whether in the form of a village elder or the czar — provided crucial stability for a society in which most saw individual freedoms as a threat to group survival.
He led chants of "Down with the Czar!" and called on people to continue to fight censorship at the May 5 rally he has called nationwide to protest Mr. Putin's inauguration for a fourth term.
Under family pressure, Mr. Mendoza sought contact with Mr. Maduro's economic czar, Tareck El Aissami, a savvy business operator charged by the United States with drug trafficking, according to two people familiar with the talks.
Another hundred-year anniversary now marks the Russian Revolution — the collapse of the czar, power seized by the Bolsheviks, followed by decades of crimes against humanity committed by heartless and autocratic followers of Karl Marx.
Remember when President Obama was pressured into hiring an Ebola czar right before the 211 midterm elections because politicians like Marco Rubio and Chris Christie had the nation believing we were all going to die?
And when the Bolsheviks executed the czar and his family and disposed of the bodies, the four daughters — Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia — each wore an amulet bearing a prayer and a picture of Rasputin.
But all of this is happening because the presidency is more powerful than ever, leaving the people's branch reduced to fighting over which viziers our czar gets to empower or have whispering in his ear.
That left the job to Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor and former pollster, who coordinated much of the administration's efforts to stem the epidemic, at times taking on responsibilities typically held by the drug czar.
And in recent days, the president made public moves to undercut her authority, leaking news that he might nominate an "immigration czar" to assume oversight of the issue at the heart of Ms. Nielsen's department.
As Ron Klain, the former "Ebola czar," told Vox in July, "Ultimately, that will translate into more babies with microcephaly here," referring to one of the devastating birth defects the virus can cause in fetuses.
President Donald Trump has proposed a plan to spend nearly $1 trillion to rebuild the nation's deteriorating airports, roads and bridges, but the issue could require an "infrastructure czar," expert Barry LePatner told CNBC on Tuesday.
St. Petersburg sprawls across a series of islands in the Neva river delta, where Czar Peter the Great ordered the city to be built as a "window on Europe" for Russia just over 300 years ago.
Thomas Homan, a Fox News contributor who served as acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director at the start of President Trump's tenure, will work as an administration "border czar," the president announced on "Fox & Friends" Friday.
Here's how we reported the transition in a Recode story from 2015: [Dorsey] seems to be a completely different man than the one who returned to Twitter in March 2011 as executive chairman and product czar.
US-backed Syrian forces reclaim Raqqa from ISIS; Trump's pick for the nation's "drug czar" withdraws his name after an explosive investigation; a 31-year-old right-wing politician is poised to become Austria's next chancellor.
China said Tuesday its economy czar, Vice Premier Liu He, is preparing to go to Washington, D.C., this week for crunch trade talks, as tensions between the 2 countries escalates and the U.S. tariffs deadline looms.
Tom Marino as drug czar after a Washington Post/60 Minutes investigation revealed his role in promoting a bill that made it harder for the DEA to crack down on opioids, contributing to the widespread crisis.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru plans to award at least $6.15 billion in post-flood construction contracts through 2021 in expedited bidding rounds that have already drawn new companies to the country, Peru's reconstruction czar told Reuters Thursday.
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro has decreed extra powers to his oil czar Manuel Quevedo to try and halt sliding crude output in crisis-hit Venezuela, which has sunk to its lowest level since the 1950s.
While Putin strives to generate the appearance of an omnipotent czar, which is often blindly accepted in the West, the truth is that his authoritarian system of governance fundamentally depends on the loyalty of his cronies.
Vadim Potomsky has commissioned a bronze statue of the former czar on horseback, wielding a sword and a cross, to be erected in front of the city's children's theater in honor of the city's 450th birthday.
They are Patriarch Cyril of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church; Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai; Boris III, the former czar of Bulgaria; and a generic Orthodox Jew in a black hat and side curls.
While Trump's drug czar testified that Trump's opioid emergency declaration was intended to help the executive branch free up federal resources that could help scale up resources, Democratic members of the Oversight committee, including Democrat Rep.
Our advisory board includes [former NFL coach] Mike Shanahan, [former NFL official and current FOX analyst] Mike Pereira, [ESPN reporter] Adam Schefter, [sports business consultant and former NFL Super Bowl czar] Jim Steeg, and Steve Schmidt.
" Norman Eisen, an ethics czar in the Obama White House and the chairman of the government watchdog group CREW, said that Mr. Ross "evidenced a level of recklessness that in a normal administration would be extraordinary.
"You need to prioritize people's health and worry about how many might die before the economy's health," Alejandro Macías, who served as the Mexican government's "czar" for the 219 H1N1 influenza outbreak, told me last week.
On one side, we have the neo-mercantilists — people like Peter Navarro, Trump's trade czar — who see world trade as a tale of winners and losers: Countries with trade surpluses win; those with trade deficits lose.
Now, people close to Mr. Pruitt say he is using his perch as Mr. Trump's deregulatory czar to position himself for further political prominence — starting with a run for office in his home state of Oklahoma.
Her promotion makes her the fourth woman — following CFO Ruth Porat, enterprise czar Diane Greene and policy chief Caroline Atkinson — to move into a very senior role at the company over the past year and change.
Stories of the czar and his people, of Lenin and the revolution, of the Great Patriotic War; of the transformation of a backward land into a mighty, modern industrial state; of Sputnik, of Laika, of Gagarin.
For the record, the character of Mr. Murdoch, whose real-life prototype remains alive and active as a media czar on both sides of the Atlantic, comes across here as something more than a satirical gargoyle.
He directs our attention to three individuals whose restlessness and ambition bolstered — and exemplified — the city's transformation: the engineer and water czar William Mulholland, the filmmaker D. W. Griffith and the Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
I am encouraged to kibitz and reminded that there will be plenty for me to do, but I will not be the wedding czar of yore, even though I know I could have pulled this off.
Appointing a czar would mirror the Obama administration's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 when it named Ron Klain, a former adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, to coordinate nationwide efforts to fight that epidemic.
Not only has the Washington Post-60 Minutes investigation spurred serious talks on Capitol Hill for repeal of this law, it also prevented the grave injustice of having Tom Marino become our nation's next drug czar.
"We have a system which is energy-inefficient because it was never designed to be efficient," said Richard L. Kauffman, the state's so-called energy czar, who is leading its plans to reimagine the power grid.
CARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they were seeking an Interpol red alert for ex-oil czar Rafael Ramirez on corruption charges, heightening tensions between the former political heavyweight and the country's socialist government.
The company's ownership was also subject to wild speculation after Guo Wengui, a fugitive Chinese tycoon, recently alleged that relatives of top Communist Party officials — including current anti-corruption czar Wang Qishan — held stakes in HNA.
So we thought this would be a good time to talk to Felicia Marcus, the chairwoman of California's Water Resources Control Board (you can call her the Water Czar.) This interview has been edited and condensed.
The director of the bureau is essentially an unelected, unaccountable czar of an agency that can exercise enormous power over the economy — and especially over the ability of people on Main Street America to obtain credit.
Soccer is urgent at the moment, but mid-July will summon a notorious moment here from the Russian Revolution: the 100th anniversary of the killings of Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children.
And more than any other writer on the right, the Catholic neoconservative William Bennett — Reagan's education secretary and the "czar" of George Bush's war on drugs — would be the one who became synonymous with moral clarity.
On Monday, Mr. Macron suffered a sharp blow when his pensions reform czar, Jean-Paul Delevoye, the reform's mastermind, was forced to resign over conflicts of interest, a government setback that the unions greeted with glee.

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