Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

And prominent Russians have publicly called for the execution of captured military ... executions of Ukrainian soldiers in Russian custody in the last six months or so. The UN Human Rights ...

Last August, a middle-aged Russian woman with her face covered walked onto Red Square in Moscow and, in the shadow of the Kremlin, scattered handfuls of coloured rubber balls on the cobblestones below ...

International humanitarian law prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and the wounded, and regards it as a war crime.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor ... losses on the battlefield. Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa ...