Posted on 09/24/2015 4:25:21 AM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, September 24, Interfax - The Russian Investigative Committee does not doubt the authenticity of the remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, and additional examinations will be conducted following a request from the Russian Orthodox Church, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin has said.
"The recent resumption of the criminal inquiry is not an attempt to revise the earlier received evidence and the established facts. Rather, it is an exclusive need to additionally examine the newly uncovered facts, which has been requested by the Russian Orthodox Church," he said.
Russian investigators "have never doubted that all of the found remains belonged to the royal family and their entourage," he said.
The Investigative Committee has asked world renowned genetic scientists to help with these examinations, and the most advanced technologies and equipment will be used, Markin said.
"Furthermore, all of these investigative measures and examinations will be conducted within the shortest possible time," he added.
What’s not being said in this article is why are they doing this investigation again. To what purpose? What’s the back story here?
Ya know, I’m not even sure if the history is right, but it is essential that someone comment thusly:
Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen.....
I am thankful that once I am dead and buried, I won’t have scientists opening up my crypt to pick my bones apart to test them. Yuck.
If he needed to convert a broken, former CCCP Back to it's former glory as a Russian empire (which he is doing) he need s the church's seal of approval.
How many times can they exhume the Romanov family again and again? They were murdered by Bolshevik scum and as Russia has moved further back to it's former icons, from Stalin to Christ they need to show the people that they are sensitive to their former, late monarchs.
They murdered them in cold blood, (something the Russians are VERY good at) and now they are feigning guilt about it.
Rasputin was unavailable for comment.
Is the Orthodox Church wanting genetic testing on the Tsar in order to determine a credible genetic link in which to reestablish the monarchy?
The imprisonment and subsequent murder of the Romanovs is a mortal stain on Russia’s soul, much more than the executions of Charles I and Louis XVI.
I didn't think anyone ever blamed the Russians for the deaths of Charles I or Louis XVI.
Why weren't the tsar and his family allowed to leave Russia after his abdication? Were some foreign governments to blame for that?
Nicholas II was a well-meaning man who was not up to the task of being tsar. His misjudgments in July 1914 helped bring on the First World War, resulting in millions of deaths and opening the way for the Bolshevik seizure of power.
I never said the Russians were responsible for the deaths of Charles I or Louis XVI. But all those were overthrows of absolutist monarchs with dire consequences. The Glorious Revolution in England was a mere blip with the subjects sheepishly returning to the fold after a brief hiatus. The French Revolution devolved into an anarchic bloodbath but the French being French refused to admit their blunder and covered themselves by substituting one tyrant for another. Only in Russia did it take the better part of a century for the “new model” government to collapse. The Stalinists dug in their heels and refused to concede that they had only made a bad situation worse.
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