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The Prosecutor's decision was based in the believe that the murder of Nicholas II and his family was done by the local government (Ural Soviets) with the approval of the central power but there is no data that Lenin gave the orders nor there were formal accusations or trial against the last Tsar and his family. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized the Romanov family in 2000 and expressed that, from the church's point of view, martyrs and saints don't need any rehabilitation. Back Home >>

InterFax - 03 September 2007, 17:43 Samples of Russian imperial family's remains and DNA test Yekaterinburg, September 3, Interfax - Bone samples of Russia's last emperor Nicholas II and members of his family have been delivered from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg for comparative DNA analysis to see if remains recently found near Yekaterinburg belong to the emperor's children, Alexey and Maria. The samples are sealed in plastic bags and haven't been opened yet, chief of the Sverdlovsk region's forensic medical bureau Nikolay Nevolin told Interfax. "The range of research on the newly-found remains will be clear on Tuesday," he said. In July 2007, parts of two bodies bearing traces of violent death were found during exploratory excavations on the Staraya Koptyakovskaya road near Yekaterinburg. Preliminary conclusions suggest that the remains were that of a boy aged 10-14 and a young woman aged 20. The remains may be that of Crown Prince Alexey Romanov and Grand Duchess Maria Romanova who were shot in the early hours of July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg. The identification of the remains will be carried out on the premises of the Sverdlovsk regional forensic-medical bureau. The remains from the first "burial site" found near the Staraya Koptyakovskaya road in 1991 will be compared with the remains from the second "burial site" to confirm or deny the existence of a blood relationship.

Comment:  According to reports in several Russian websites, the remains from St. Petersburg and the ones in Ekaterinburg are now stored at 4 degrees Celsius in two refrigerators 2 meters apart.  Scientists are ready to start the examination and comparison analysis of the bones, including DNA testing (if at all possible due to the deterioration of the remains and the amount found).  The first conclusion that the remains found belonged to Alexei and Maria were based on observation of the items found and historical records but not on scientific results. Vladimir Solovyov brought alone and without any protection the remains from St. Petersburg. The same remains that 10 years ago were taken from Ekaterinburg to Moscow in strictest secrecy for examination.  Solovyov also brought with him an old icon that in his personal opinion protects the tsarist family and that it's always kept close to the remains. Bureau Chief Nicholas Nevolin said that now, as opposed to the nineties, when he studied the remains of Nicholas II, there are no legal difficulties.  There is money, and equipment, and we can invite the most highly skilled professionals, including foreign ones. "The main difficulty will be, How long will it take?  We hope the genetic research will be able to get results because the remains were long kept in the ground. At this moment we could not say how well preserved are the DNA bones and how fast we could reach the number of professionals required for genetic research" explained Nikolai Nevolin. Back Home >>

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