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01.10.2008, 16:02
Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of political repression and should be rehabilitated. Nicholas, his wife, their five children, a doctor and three servants were shot dead by Bolshevik revolutiona
06.10.2008, 11:00
It’s official – the last Russian Tsar, Nikolay II, and his family have been declared victims of illegal political repression by Russia's Supreme Court. Now, as rehabilitated political prisoners, the royal family is legally entitled to the retur
07.11.2008, 06:09
November the 7th 1917 was one of the most significant days in Russian history, when Lenin and the Bolshevik movement decided the timing was right for revolution. The Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace – which was then the seat of the governme
20.03.2008, 10:45
A ceremony has been held in New York to mourn the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, Metropolitan Laurus, who died on Monday aged 80.
Published: 07 November, 2008, 16:20
Russia’s oldest ‘first-wave’ emigrant has died in Paris after a long fight against illness. Andrey Shmeman, who was 88, was among those who fled during the country’s civil war after the October Revolution of 1917.
