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17.07.2007, 06:01
It is 89 years since the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his immediate family were murdered following the Bolshevik Revolution. Russia's Prosecutor General's office still refuses to admit they were victims of political repression.
26.09.2007, 15:15
Russia's Prosecutor General has ruled out rehabilitation for the late Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were slaughtered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
30.04.2008, 13:11
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According to scientists from the University of Massachusetts in the U.S., DNA tests have shown that bone fragments exhumed in central Russia belong to children of the late Russian Tsar Nicholas II. They are said to be from the heir, Prince Aleksey, and hi
17.07.2008, 00:55
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DNA results have confirmed that remains found near Ekaterinburg a year ago belong to Prince Aleksey and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of the Romanov family. The announcement comes on the 90th anniversary of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his fami
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
08.11.2007, 17:50
The Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the country's last emperor, Nicholas II, and his family were not victims of political repression and their rights were not violated.
24.08.2007, 21:31
Archaeologists claim to have found the remains of the last two missing members of Russia's Royal family – Prince Aleksey and Princess Maria – who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
10.04.2010, 21:40
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All 96 people on board have died after a Polish presidential TU-154 plane crashed near an airport outside Smolensk in western Russia. The Polish president and his wife were among the killed.
04.10.2010, 07:20
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After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.
Published: 09 December, 2008, 12:27
A new exhibition dedicated to Russia’s last royal family has opened in St Petersburg. Under the title “Peter and Paul’s cathedral and the Grand Royal tomb – a necropolis of the Imperial House of Romanovs”.
