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Moreover, with mayor Steve Rotheram's cabinet being as overwhelmingly male as mayor Street's, a 'fairness tsar' could hardly NOT be female, and indeed is: TUC Regional Secretary Lynn Collins.

For instance, the Soviet historian Pavel Ryndzuskii argues that assertions of peasant monarchism "were, as a rule, based on a most literal reading of the regular forms of address used by 'subjects' in their petitions to the authorities, including petitions brought 'to the tsar' [na vysochaishee imia], formulaic expressions of supplication employed to increase the effectiveness of one's petition or prescribed by official regulations on presenting petitions." (4)

Firstly, when the Government appoints someone to a special position, why are they always described as 'a tsar' - like Kirkburton's own Keith Hellawell who was 'drugs tsar' a decade ago?

John Murray will publish 'The King, The Kaiser and The Tsar' by Catrine Clay in 2006, with Viking releasing 'The Three Emperors' by Miranda Carter in 2007.

Another, academic critic was Anna Pankratova who objected to the idealized representation of 'a people's tsar' in Part One evoked by the procession of Muscovites begging him to return to the capital.

One of the issues raised by Lukin is whether the carnivalesque elements in playing at tsar should be considered simply as a harmless game, similar to the modern game of "king of the castle" (tsar' gory).

ORANGE Order chiefs have issued a harsh message to Jack McConnell over his plans to create a new 'parades tsar'.

The Tsar's possible relocation to Scotland is just one of the incredible revelations in historian Alexandra Churchill's new book: "In the Eye of the Storm: George author Alexandra V and the Great War."

In papers from KGB archives published yesterday, a soldier claimed he buried 26 boxes of the Tsar's gold near the famous Trans-Siberian railway, 2,215 miles east of Moscow.

Her mother is dying, and her eldest brother has been taken into the tsar's army..