The last Romanov ruler was Tsar Nicholas II, who assumed the throne in 1894 after his father, Tsar Alexander III, died suddenly.
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And it was named after the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. So when I heard "last tsar," I thought of the last word cocktail.
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Mr Putin's sky-high approval ratings can be explained in part by his image as tsar-batiushka, our Tsar the Father, a benign dictator undermined by incompetent underlings.
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PIOTR NEYFarnham, Surrey I was struck by the fact that Mikhail Glinka's "Glory to the Tsar" was played during Vladimir Putin's coronation-like inauguration ("Enter Tsar Vladimir", October 28th).
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That piece is the epilogue of Glinka's opera, "A Life For the Tsar", which during Soviet times was known as "Ivan Susanin" for the peasant hero who dies for the tsar.
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A surviving Tsar Bomba casing at Sarov's nuclear weapons museum.
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Like a tsar, Mr Putin surmounts a pyramid of patronage.
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THE TSAR OF LOVE AND TECHNO: Stories, by Anthony Marra.
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In 1904, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia had a son.
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In The Times, as per our stylebook, "tsar" is verboten.
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Secretary of Defense: Dr. Doom Secretary of Energy: Dr. Octopus Secretary of Education: Dr. Seuss Secretary of State: Dr. Evil Secretary of Agriculture: Dr. Mareou Secretary of the Interior: Dr. Robotnick Women's issues tsar: Dr. Feelgood Gang Violence tsar: Dr. Dre (actually, that's not a half-bad idea…) Scientific and Medical Ethics tsar: Dr. Frankenstein Drug tsar: Dr. Mario Nuclear weapon tsar: Dr. Strangelove And of course just as the world is ending in thermonuclear fire touched off because some Iranian sailor in the gulf flipped off Air Force One, Dr. Who appears, looks around, and says, "Fixed point in time, I am so sorry…" Can it please be November already?
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They believe the coming of a new tsar may be imminent.
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Replica of the Tsar Bomba on display at a Russian museum.
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Legitimacy cannot be passed from the tsar to the next generation.
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"Kadyrov has the potential to be a tsar-maker," Petrov said.
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Windows more than 500 miles away shattered during the Tsar Bomba test.
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Few questioned the prerogative of the tsar to banish a rebellious underling.
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She also poses for a photo with photogenic impersonators of Russian tsar.
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Strain the broth, pull the meat apart, slice it with a sharp knife, as they did in the olden days, in the age of the tsar, and the other tsar, and the third tsar, before the advent of the meat grinder, before Vasily the Blind, and Ivan Kalita, and the Cumans, and Rurik, and Sineus and Truvor, who, as it turns out, never even existed.
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After 18 years, Mr Putin is not just the president but the tsar.
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As Russian Tsar, as he sees himself, his empire can't function without Ukraine.
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There's just one hitch: The tsar has ratified a peace treaty with France.
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Most observers had predicted he would succeed Wang Qishan as anti-corruption tsar.
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Now the Astrologer demands her as his reward from the hitherto grateful Tsar.
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His image of the tsar is widely accepted as one of his masterpieces.
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Tsar Alexander II of Russia is pictured here with his dog in 1863.
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Specifically, explosions of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba.
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Today the answer to "Peter or Paul, but not Mary" is TSAR. Tricky!
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As Russian tsar, as he sees himself, his empire cannot function without Ukraine.
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One name doing the rounds in Paris is Margrethe Vestager, the commission's competition tsar.
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Meanwhile, Luis Salas left his job as Venezuela's economic tsar after just six weeks.
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Tsar Nicholas cradles a rare albino coconut, a gift from the Sultan of Jub.
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THE NEW TSAR: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, by Steven Lee Myers.
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A blast from Tsar Bomba could cause radiation burns as far as 62 miles away.
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Trying to defend his fief, Mr Shestun appealed for justice to Mr Putin, the tsar.
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Merkel has appointed a cabinet level tsar to coordinate a national fight against anti-Semitism.
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Retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang became the most senior official toppled for corruption since 1949.
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Mr Putin's emergence as a 21st-century tsar is not as odd as it seems.
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Gosudarstvo is an extension of the tsar as the ultimate source of order and authority.
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And like a tsar, Mr Putin has buttressed his power through repression and military conflict.
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Crowds at the rally in Moscow roared "down with the tsar!" and waved Russian flags.
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Navalny has likened Putin to an autocratic tsar who has clung to power for too long.
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No lord concerned himself very much with us, and the tsar in Mokva not at all.
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Mr Putin's former KGB colleagues swore their allegiance to him as though he were the tsar.
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"It was like sticking a head into a cut-out of a tsar," says Mr Gudkov.
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Britain's anti-slavery tsar, Kevin Hyland, said these nations should look closely at Britain's landmark legislation.
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He was lamenting his first cousin, Tsar Nicholas II (left), to whom he bore an uncanny resemblance.
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They are also known by the names APT 28, Pawn Team, Sednit, Sofacy, Tsar Team, and Strontium.
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Plans drawn up under Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, were derailed by World War One, he said.
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It is unlikely that such suffering bothered the tsar, who enjoyed executing criminals and traitors in public.
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He was also named as then-prime minister David Cameron's efficiency tsar despite accusations of tax evasion.
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After meeting officials, he called for an end to protests and praised Mr Putin as the "tsar".
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Or the new tsar, out to restore Russian greatness, annexing Crimea and relentlessly challenging the Western order?
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"For us, the tsar is the subject and we are people of the subject," he says enigmatically.
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A tsar, says Mr Zorin, is wedded to the Russian people and nobody can stand between them.
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Although the tsar is not accountable to any institution, he is sensitive to public opinion and ratings.
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And he'll have to think twice about his increasingly precarious position as the modern-day Russian tsar.
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"Just like that, like a tsar and a god, he decided and made it happen," Orlov said.
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One example is a decorated cup given out at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896.
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The humble Siberian peasant bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, the Tsarina, with his apparently miraculous powers.
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The best historical example we can drawn from is Russia's "Tsar Bomba" hydrogen bomb test in October 2165.
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Victor Carranza, who had started out as a guaquero and became Colombia's emerald tsar, found it in 1999.
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That was when Tsar Alexander III created a special guard service in the wake of his father's assassination.
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It is further denied that the Tsar and the Imperial family have any intention of leaving Tsarskoe Selo.
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Both liberal reformers and conservative traditionalists in Moscow are talking about Mr Putin as a 19043st-century tsar.
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The drive has felled many of his political opponents, including the once-powerful domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
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The Astrologer, a magician, gives a Golden Cockerel to the silly Tsar, Dodon, as the ultimate defense mechanism.
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Prepared this way, their thick Tsar-Cut salmon is exceptionally meaty but still succulent, with a delicate salinity.
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Both had consisted of a small group of handpicked citizens who each had the full trust of the tsar.
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The victims were Tsar Nicholas, the Empress Alexandra and their five children, along with their doctor and three servants.
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The bomb thrown in 1881 at Tsar Alexander II, who had emancipated the serfs, woefully stymied reform in Russia.
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More from the Financial Times:Madrid presses constitutional nuclear buttonCatalonia's parliament declares independenceChina's graft tsar draws political career to close
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The government's former drugs tsar, David Nutt, has gone further, calling the law "a completely nonsense piece of legislation".
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Instead the Kremlin is said to be preparing a display of mourning for the execution of the last tsar.
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But the most important source of legitimacy for this neo-tsar was the display of "unity with his people".
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Because today's tsar knows history, he is likely to be opportunistic abroad, shadowboxing rather than risking a genuine confrontation.
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Gingrich asked to be given a special position akin to a tsar in charge of reviewing the federal bureaucracy.
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Before his detention, he briefly addressed supporters in central Moscow, leading them in chants of 'Down with the Tsar!
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Won't he remain the near-Tsar of today's Russia no matter how many people vote for him, or don't?
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Cass Sunstein, a law professor at Harvard University and Barack Obama's former regulation tsar, is one of Facebook's dissatisfied customers.
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He will have less influence than Ramón Lobo, the newly appointed economy tsar, an economist with little high-level experience.
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In 1889 Tsar Alexander III said that Montenegro's Prince Nikola was Russia's "sole sincere and true friend" in the Balkans.
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Helmed by Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Tsarina Alexandria, the Romanoffs were brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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The growing role of Rosario Murillo, the first lady, communications tsar and now Ortega's running mate, has proved particularly divisive.
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" The fear is growing "that, as with other Russian rulers, Tsar Vladimir will leave turbulence and upheaval in his wake.
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He reconciles with Helene, but that's not stopping her from sleeping with a smitten Boris or flirting with the tsar.
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The anti-graft drive has felled many of this political opponents, including the once-powerful domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
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Russian rulers, including Ivan the Terrible, have sometimes tested their authenticity by temporarily placing a fake tsar on the throne.
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On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children were murdered in a basement in Ekaterinburg.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Saudi Arabia's choice of oil tsar has made a problematic reshuffle at the world's largest company worse.
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On Tuesday, the Tsar Maiden was Anastasia Matvienko, playing the role with a screwball combination of beauty and tearaway impulsiveness.
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This Tsar, called Peter II, was a child alcoholic who died on his wedding day after ruling for three years.
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In July, a report by pensions tsar Jean-Paul Delevoye said it would affect people born in 1963 or later.
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Elon Musk, the hyperloop tsar himself, even reportedly attended the competition held at SpaceX's 0.8-mile test track in Hawthorne, Calif.
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The Decembrist revolt of 1825, in which army officers rose against Tsar Nicholas I, took inspiration from the Declaration of Independence.
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For all the huge differences, there are some parallels, or maybe complementarities, between the stories of Archbishop Romero and Tsar Nicholas.
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On April 26th the government's shale-gas tsar, Natascha Engel, said she was resigning, after just six months in the job.
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In many towns in Russia the portrait of the Tsar has been removed from public buildings to prevent its being injured.
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Xiao Gang, China's stock market tsar, once remarked that the only thing he'd done right in life was marry his wife.
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On February 15th the far-left economics tsar, Luis Salas, was dismissed after just six weeks in the newly created job.
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He'll have to actually step up soon; the Tsar is ignoring General Kutuzov's plan to retreat and insists on fighting Napoleon.
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So far, his administration has not produced a plan or appointed a "drug tsar" to oversee a strategy to curb addiction.
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And the fear will grow that, as with other Russian rulers, Tsar Vladimir will leave turbulence and upheaval in his wake.
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During the Petrine period, bear-related activities came under attack as Tsar Alexei banned jesters and ordered their bear companions killed.
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"This is the coronation of a tsar who will usurp the presidency as he previously usurped the government," said Nikola, a protester.
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Under previously observed age norms, Xi's current anti-corruption tsar Wang Qishan would be too old to begin another Standing Committee term.
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The foreign adventures that have brought Russia's new tsar a big boost over the past few years are starting to go wrong.
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Alexei Ulyukaev, a former finance minister, who got into conflict with Igor Sechin, Mr Putin's confidant and energy tsar, is in prison.
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In March, Zuckerberg had a rare meeting with the country's propaganda tsar, a suggestion of warming relations between Facebook and the government.
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He used this as an occasion to reprise his decades-past role as a one-man food-distribution tsar in postwar Europe.
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This "Tsar" had seldom seemed less vulnerable (another irony on the 100th anniversary of the murder of Russia's last royals, the Romanovs).
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China has stepped up pressure on Taiwan since President Tsar Ing-wen, from the pro-independence ruling party, took office in 2016.
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Protesters held up banners reading "No to the usurpation of power" and "We don't need a tsar", photos from the events showed.
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Thousands of supporters did gather at the unauthorized location, shouting "Russia without Putin" and "Down with the tsar," according to a BBC report.
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Guo also made allegations against deputy national police chief Fu Zhenghua, who headed the special unit that investigated disgraced security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
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The Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II and his family of the Romanov dynasty, but the Yourievsky line from Alexander II's second wife continued.
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The tsar records banal details of his daily routine—breakfasts, meetings, walks—like a 17th-century monarch trying to inhabit the modernist age.
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We knew that the upcoming DLC, In The Name Of The Tsar, would feature the Russian army in the World War I storyline.
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In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were assassinated by their Bolshevik captors, marking the end of a 300-year imperial dynasty.
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The largest nuclear explosion in human history, the Tsar Bomba, detonated with a force of 50 megatons or the power of 13,333 Hiroshimas.
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The largest nuclear explosion in human history, the Tsar Bomba, detonated with a force of 50 megatons or the power of 3,333 Hiroshimas.
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His words mocked thousands of young people who had demonstrated two days earlier under the slogan "He is not a tsar to us".
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But the tsar had a different idea: the peninsula could become a protectorate administered by six Orthodox powers, in which Russia would predominate.
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By sending in the navy, the tsar was signalling that if anybody was going to settle disputes on Athos, it would be Russia.
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They are also odd and mystical, involving Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, as a sort of tsar who subsumes the identity of all Russians.
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The club was a short walk away, on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, part of a complex that included one of the city's fanciest hotels.
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So Rasputin could bullshit that his belief could save the tsar and tsarina's boy, and it won him their love and their ears.
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I keep finding new great books, but since you asked for the last one: "The Tsar of Love and Techno," by Anthony Marra.
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The most powerful hydrogen bomb ever — a Russian nuke called Tsar Bomba, literally "king of bombs" — had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT.
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All this comes as Facebook negotiates with regulators about beefing up its oversight of privacy, which reportedly may mean it appoints a privacy tsar.
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The Russian tsar had also recently claimed sovereignty over an area stretching roughly from modern-day Alaska to Oregon, and barred foreign shipping there.
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President Nicolas Maduro promoted Reverol this month, days after the United States accused the former anti-drugs tsar of taking bribes from cocaine traffickers.
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They attacked him for breaking the sabbath by traveling on Sunday and, in an interesting twist, claimed he was pimping for the Russian Tsar.
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Robredo was given the "drugs tsar" post by Duterte after remarks she made about abusive police and the campaign's ineffectiveness, made during an Oct.
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The only major fighting inside Germany, in the war's opening weeks, had ended in a spectacular rout of Tsar Nicholas II's inept invading troops.
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Since taking power in 2012, Xi has waged war on corruption, taking down many opponents, including the once-powerful domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
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Navalny had called for demonstrations in more than 277 towns and cities across Russia against what he says is Putin's autocratic, tsar-like rule.
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One protester in Moscow, wearing a rabbit's mask with the legend "Tsar of the Animals", said he was unsure what the protest would achieve.
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That movie, Matilda, portrays a love affair by the last Russian tsar, Nikolas II, who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
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There's also a foolish Tsar (echoes of Mr. Ratmansky's "The Golden Cockerel," staged in 2016 by American Ballet Theater), surrounded by absurd, cartoonish Boyars.
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And then there were assassinations: Tsar Alexander II, the Italian king, the Spanish prime minister, the Empress of Austria and the American president William McKinley.
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In the 18th century, another advisory body was established by Russian Tsar Peter III, who governed for six months, this time called the Imperial Council.
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In 2018, solemn ceremonies will mark the 100th anniversary of the killing of Tsar Nicholas, a cousin of Britain's King George V, and his family.
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The vote is less an election than a coronation, and the most that people can do to oppose the tsar is to boycott the poll.
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Tsar Team, which has also been named Fancy Bear by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, is widely believed to be behind the Democratic Party hacks in June.
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WADA issued a statement attributing the attack to Tsar Team, a hacking group widely known as APT28 and Fancy Bear by U.S. cyber-security researchers.
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Now Mr Wang is the powerful anti-corruption tsar who has led a wide-ranging purge of China's military, security forces and ruling Communist Party.
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It concludes with the pathetic Nicholas II, the last tsar, deposed and hurriedly murdered alongside his wife and children (pictured) by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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The Battle of Austerlitz sees Napoleon watching from a distance as the Tsar foolishly demands the general to have his troops charge at the French.
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" Putin also rejected the accusation -- prompted by his 18 continuous years spent either as president or prime minister of Russia -- that he is a "tsar.
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Seven years later, five skeletons were found in a forest near Ekaterinburg, soon identified as those of the Tsar, Tsarina, and three of their children.
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A Bolshevik guard told the Tsar he would be executed, Nicholas reflexively turned toward his children and was quickly shot, point blank, in the head.
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This was the result of two very substantial books by Simon Sebag Montefiore, "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" (2003) and "Young Stalin" (2007).
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The conclusion: The ocean has absorbed (roughly) the equivalent amount of energy released when detonating a Tsar Bomba once every 10 minutes for 10 years.
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The largest ever hydrogen bomb, known as the "Tsar Bomba," was detonated by the then-Soviet Union in 1961, with a yield of 50 megatons.
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A few others on Youku appeared to have been taken down or postponed, including one hosted by Taiwanese talk show hosts Kevin Tsar and Elephant Dee.
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It's also about the sex life of Rasputin, the Russian mystic and advisor to the empire's last Tsar, whose life and death has been endlessly mythologized.
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In its most telling scene, the film's drugs tsar, played by Michael Douglas, asks his staff to think creatively about new ideas for tackling the problem.
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The Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov was the fourth and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered alongside her parents and siblings by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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But the most expensive part of the cocktail is the glass it's served in, a crystal Baccarat Tsar glass worth $3,600, which you get to keep.
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The "Spanish Sex Tsar" sounds like one of those wacky made-up sex acts like a "Cleveland Steamer," but the sex position is all too real.
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On August 1st a court in New York charged Néstor Reverol, an ex-commander of the national guard and Venezuela's former drug tsar, with cocaine trafficking.
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Only after a liberal revolution had deposed the Tsar and transformed Russia into a fully capitalist state, they believed, could the proletariat come onto the stage.
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This controversial historical drama depicts a romantic love affair between Russia's last tsar Nicholas II and ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, a star of the Royal Mariinsky Theater.
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Denmark's Margrethe Vestager will hold onto the competition tsar role in which she has already spent five years ruffling feathers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Choi's power behind the closed doors was compared to Rasputin, the Russian mystic who gained power through his influence over the tsar in early 20th century.
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The Russian empire had been overdue for transformation back in 1914, but Tsar Nicholas II's insistence on ruling like a 17th-century absolute monarch made it impossible.
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Commemoration of the royal family will come to a spectacular climax next year, the centenary of the killings of Tsar Nicholas, Tsarina Alexandra and their five children.
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The rally organized by the opposition Libertarian Party chanted "Putin is a thief" and "away with the tsar," slogans common at anti-Putin and anti-government protests.
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A "Russian cyber espionage group operator by the name of Tsar Team (APT28)" gained access to WADA's Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS), the agency said.
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In shaking up his cabinet Mr Maduro gave the job of economic tsar to Luis Salas, a sociologist who comes from the far-left fringes of chavismo.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to remove the vice president from her "drugs tsar" post if she shared state secrets with foreign individuals and entities.
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As governor, he plans to appoint a homelessness tsar, to preëmpt the problem of homeless people congregating in cities with more services—cities such as San Francisco.
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Fusions bombs combine hydrogen nuclei to form helium, resulting in enormous explosive potential—the strongest of which, the Tsar Bomba in 1961, produced upwards of 50,000 kilotons.
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As executive producer on Stone's series on Putin for US cable network Showtime, I hung hard to my locus standi for an audience with the Russian "tsar".
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The film tells the story of a love affair between the tsar, Nicholas II, and half-Polish ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, who described the relationship in her memoirs.
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Instead, the group gathered at the Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour in Moscow on July 17 where they marched with tall crosses and standards depicting Russia's last tsar.
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Notably, there are not one but two portraits of Taras Shevchenko—a nineteenth-century Ukrainian poet who was exiled for organizing against the Tsar and mocking his wife.
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Even the largest nuke ever detonated — a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, which the Russians detonated over the Arctic Sea in 1961 — wouldn't be enough.
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The former police chief took up the post this month, about a year after the inaugural anti-slavery tsar resigned, expressing frustration about government interference in his role.
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With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country's last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.
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Peuthert soon procured a handful of former Romanov friends and servants, all of whom were convinced on sight alone, that this was the daughter of the late Tsar.
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One of the first crosses I made was 21D, "Bygone Winter Palace resident," which had to be TSAR — and 32A, "Zellweger of 'Chicago,'" which had to be RENEE.
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That would put Liu on a similar standing with former economic tsar Zhu Rongji, known for his tough handling of hyperinflation and the economic chaos in the 1990s.
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One of his portfolios, as a sort of media tsar, seems to have left even his father unimpressed: Mr Sisi has criticised Egypt's press for being insufficiently supportive.
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The city stands as a testament to the manic ambitions of a ruthless and visionary tsar who showed no regard for human life in his bid to westernise Russia.
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Mrs Merkel's CDU manifesto is a perfunctory list of modest correctives, like 15,000 more police officers, increased child benefit, a new digitisation tsar and tighter rules on dual citizenship.
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Ford first entered Russia in 1907 under the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, but foreign automakers were shut out during the Soviet era when Moscow built its own industry.
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Mr Putin walked down to the Kremlin cathedrals to the sound of Mikhail Glinka's "Glory to the Tsar" and was blessed by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church.
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If you're a century-old Russian aristocrat or the restless ghost of Tsar Nicolas II, then this is probably some long-overdue good news: Your booze is finally here!
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Protestors at the rally, organized by the opposition Libertarian Party, chanted "Putin is a thief" and "away with the tsar" as they marched through the streets of central Moscow.
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But some Russian historians dispute the idea that Ivan murdered his son, and President Vladimir Putin said last year it was unclear if the tsar was guilty or not.
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Kremlin-watchers often liken his performance, which this year spanned almost 80 questions, to that of a tsar listening to his petitioners as he promises to fix individuals' problems.
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The tsar, his wife, and their five children were shot to death in a basement by Bolsheviks, a revolutionary socialist group, who had been holding them hostage for months.
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The baby grew up in captivity and was massively undersocialized, leading the few people who knew of his survival to assume the deposed Tsar had long since gone insane.
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After months of consultations, Macron's pension tsar Jean-Paul Delevoye is scheduled to meet union leaders later on Monday before presenting his reform proposals to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
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Since then, she has received books on American diplomacy, a murdered socialite, and a biography of Tsar Nicholas II. "She is so on point," she said, of her bookseller.
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Though Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their five children were murdered, the descendants of the Romanov family live on in an exclusive bunch which includes Prince William and Harry.
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By slapping them down, the Kremlin hopes to portray Mr Putin as the only true source of justice, a good tsar who can pardon and punish as he sees fit.
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Both sides though sought to present Putin's visit, which was intended to mark 300 years since Tsar Peter the Great visited France, as an occasion to relaunch Franco-Russian relations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's fracking tsar Natascha Engel said on Sunday she had quit the role after just six months because government policy was preventing the industry from developing.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's government, with one eye on elections later in the year, is getting tough on crime, and one figure is taking center stage: the country's security tsar.
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Nationalists and some of the clergy, including Mr Putin's confessor, Father Tikhon Shevkunov, claim that the Bolshevik revolution was brought about by a Western-sponsored intelligentsia, who betrayed their tsar.
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When he names his ministers later on Tuesday, Cottarelli, who served as a cost-cutting tsar to a previous government, is expected to again reassure investors on the Italian economy.
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In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, wife Alexandra, and their five children were murdered in a basement cellar in a mansion Ekaterinburg where they had been under house arrest for month.
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It was led by Premji Invest, the venture arm of the Premji family office (the family behind Wipro, whose chairman, Azim Premji, has been called the Tsar of Indian IT).
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Such a scenario would see him wield power longer than Soviet leader Josef Stalin, but still leave him well short of Tsar Peter the Great, who reigned for 43 years.
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By the late 23s, having lost the Crimean War to Britain, and fearful that Britain would seize Alaska in any future conflict, Tsar Alexander II decided to seek a deal.
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"Speaking as an economist, in the past few days tensions on the financial markets have increased," said Cottarelli, who had served as a cost-cutting tsar to a previous government.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France is ready to invest in artificial intelligence, blockchain and data mining to "transform" its sprawling bureaucracy instead of simply trimming budgets and jobs, its administration reform tsar said.
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Xi's anti-corruption crackdown has punished more than a million party members, jailed top military figures and retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the most senior official toppled for corruption since 1949.
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Last May, one of the country's most treasured 19th century art works, which depicts Tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, was damaged by a man with a metal rod.
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We arrived at the monument of the Tsar Liberator, across from the Bulgarian National Assembly, where about 20 or so nationalists held an unpermitted rally around PA speakers blaring military anthems.
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Executed by Bolsheviks in 1918, the last tsar is considered a martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church, whose influence in society has grown greatly since the fall of communism in 1991.
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He had called for demonstrations in more than 90 towns and cities under the slogan "Putin is not our tsar" to protest what he says is the Russian president's autocratic rule.
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The pension tsar, Jean-Paul Delevoye, made it clear in a report this summer that the new system would not change at all the overall amount that France spends on pensions.
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In May last year, a man damaged one of Russia's most famous paintings depicting Tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, by attacking it with a metal pole after drinking vodka.
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Paulo Guedes, a former banker with an economics degree from the University of Chicago, will be the economy tsar, leading a ministry that will absorb the ministries of finance, planning and industry.
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I mean, the Tsar Bomba was already as scarily powerful as it can get, since it almost destroyed the plane that dropped it and shattered windows as far as Norway and Finland.
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The chamber is holding up all but a few executive appointments in retaliation for President Muhammadu Buhari's failure to remove an official (the acting anti-corruption tsar) whom the Senate twice rejected.
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Fine. In the early morning of July 17, 1918, Bolshevik troops instructed Tsar Nicholas II and his whole family to dress up in their party clothes and line up for a photograph.
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Rasputin also affected the Tsar's ability to rule: By the time Nicholas decided to abdicate the throne in 1917, Rasputin had the Tsar on a steady diet of hashish psychoactive herb henbane.
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Russians are more likely to blame the prime minister or local officials than Mr Putin, in keeping with the age-old Russian political myth of the good tsar betrayed by evil boyars.
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The accused cadres are the former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, former chief of staff to President Hu Jintao Ling Jihua, and former Chongqing party boss Sun Zhengcai, according to a Xinhua report.
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But after three years in the cold, Leni Robredo is being welcomed back to Duterte's cabinet as his "tsar" in a war on drugs in which thousands of people have been killed.
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"I'll have to check that," said Putin, who fielded almost 70 questions in just under four hours, in an event that Kremlin watchers often liken to a tsar listening to his petitioners.
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The 65-year-old former KGB agent is regarded by many voters as a tsar-like father-of-the-nation figure who has brought their country back from the brink of collapse.
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After she resigned in 1990 she was invited to become a sort of world climate tsar, heading a new institute to spread the word; she was tempted, but eventually turned it down.
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Royal and aristocratic houses all over Europe were linked to the Romanovs by a dense matrix of blood ties; they shared both the grief for the tsar and the inchoate urge to help.
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This was only a few years after the systematic massacres of the "kulaks," who were relatively wealthy peasants of Russia, more than a decade after Russian elites such as the Tsar were killed.
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The Russians had another bomb planned that would have been double the force of the Tsar Bomba at 100 megatons (and 6,666 times the force of Hiroshima) but luckily they never tested it.
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Mr Gul and Ali Babacan, a former economy tsar, along with a handful of other ex-ministers, are preparing to break with AK and launch a new party, people close to them say.
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The first films screened in Russia were the work of the French Lumière brothers, and were imported to celebrate the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II in 1894; their announcements were simple typographical ads.
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Stalin's morbid suspiciousness and lack of scruples had kept the country out of the European war for almost two years—two years more than Tsar Nicholas II had managed with the previous war.
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The security tsar, who some have tipped to take an even more central political role, told Reuters her past with a guerrilla group had steeled her to deal with tough political fights now.
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The 1917 demonstrations by women demanding "bread and peace" sparked other strikes and protests, which led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II four days later and granted women the right to vote.
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The kind of rule Mr Putin has gradually fashioned over his years in power has more in common with a tsar than with a Soviet politburo chief, let alone a democratically elected leader.
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Like any tsar, Mr Putin has presented himself as a gatherer of Russian lands and the man who came to consolidate and save Russia from disintegration after a period of chaos and disorder.
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Wang cut his teeth in his home province Fujian, overlapping with Xi. Xia Baolong, 64, once touted to take over as security tsar, stepped down as party boss of Zhejiang province in April.
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A 2007 U.S. diplomatic cable described the senior Choi as the "Korean Rasputin", an allusion to a close adviser to the last tsar of Russia and the perceived influence over Park Geun-hye.
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There was a boy in Middle House whom we admiringly called Tsar Liberator, because he was not only the best endowed of us but he could ejaculate the farthest in any ejaculation competition.
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He previously worked as a correspondent in Moscow, Baghdad and Washington and is the author of "The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin," published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2015.
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