This was 100 years ago when Pyotr Stolypin was prime minister under Tsar Nicholas II.
Cancer "tsar" Professor Mike Richards said the pilot schemes had proved a great success.
But now that the tsar has been symbolically restored, Russia has an impeccably democratic government.
Yet, the liberal Provisional Government proved no better at controlling the chaos than the Tsar.
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In 1917, in Russia at Pskov, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated for himself and his son.
But the government's "behaviour tsar", Charlie Taylor, has called for a clampdown on term-time holidays.
Assign a Data Tsar to tear down organizational silos and drive cross-functional data usage.
Some compared him to Nicholas I, the Tsar who crushed the Decembrists' uprising in 1825.
Once again, western leaders are giving a new Russian tsar the benefit of doubt.
No mitigating mention of the tsar's own weak and incompetent, if not deliberately murderous, autocracy.
He has now persuaded Italy's prime minister, Romano Prodi, to make him the overall millennium tsar.
These two customizations also gave Tsar Alexander assurance that the wine was coming from his cellar.
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His imperial style of government ever the good tsar beset by under-performing ministers has suppressed the popularity of others.
And they are cross with Mrs Townsend for making a hash of her job as crime tsar.
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The new upheaval is just the latest example of President Yeltsin's tsar-like tendency to re-order the political scene.
Mike Trace, the deputy drugs tsar, admits that the targets are challenging but insists they can be met.
And the Russians yes, of all people, the Russians have succumbed to an advertising tsar.
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No one, however, could outdo the sparrow tsar, or so you might think.
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Professor Louis Appleby, the government's mental health tsar, said urgent action was needed.
The latest newcomer, unless one has been added since you started this paragraph, is President George Bush's war tsar.
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Last month the Government launched a National Service Framework and appointed a heart tsar charged with driving up standards.
In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.
And the Russian Orthodox Church has been worrying whether the bones are really those of the tsar at all.
The royal pressure has come from the (arguably) highest ranking of the tsar's living relations, Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Romanova.
Patarei, built as a sea fortress under Russian tsar Nicholas I in 1840, but served as a prison from 1920 to 2005.
Forensic evidence has also shown beyond doubt that the Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
However the Tsarist government continued to exist even after the Tsar was gone.
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Even the Russian tsar got round, in 1861, to freeing his country's serfs.
By the end of the 19th century, Central Asia's emirates and khanates were all puppet fiefs under the Russian tsar.
It ended on an even more sour note, with the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by Bolshevik forces in 1918.
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