article_snippet: One former loyalist said yesterday that Putin could face the same fate as the last Tsar of Russia, shot by a Bolshevik firing squad, or ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, who died in The Hague awaiting trial.
article_snippet: Igor Strelkov - a key military commander of rebel fighters in Crimea and eastern Ukraine - also noted that 15 March was the date of the abdication of monarch Nicholas II, 98 years ago.
article_snippet: One report citing military historian Strelkov said 'that Vladimir Putin might follow the destiny of Emperor Nicholas II, who was shot in 1918. '
article_snippet: Another path for Putin, according to military historian Strelkov is a repetition of final days of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 in jail in The Hague.'