Tsarist Russia looked secure after the shock of 1905, but then fell to the Bolsheviks in 1917.

ECONOMIST: New world ahead

Forensic evidence has also shown beyond doubt that the Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

BBC: Despatches

But a row over how and where to bury the presumed remains of Tsar Nicholas II, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, has rattled on for six years now since the bones were discovered near Yekaterinburg.

ECONOMIST: Russia��s bones of contention