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Title: DNA confirms IDs of czar's children
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AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_eu/russia_czar_s_family
Published: Apr 30, 2008
Author: MIKE ECKEL
Post Date: 2008-04-30 10:59:53 by richard9151
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Views: 170
Comments: 4
1 minute ago MOSCOW - DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday. Bone fragments dug up near the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg are indeed those of Crown Prince Alexei and his sister, Maria, whose remains had been missing since the family was murdered in 1918 as Russia descended into civil war, said Eduard Rossel, governor of the Sverdlovsk region. "We have now found the entire family," he told reporters in Yekaterinburg, 900 miles east of Moscow. The confirmation could bring the tortured history of the Russian imperial family closer to closure and end royal supporters' persistent hopes that members of the czar's immediate family survived the massacre. Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 as revolutionary fervor swept Russia, and he and his family were detained. The czar; his wife, Alexandra, and their son and four daughters were fatally shot on July 17, 1918, in a basement room of the merchant's house where they were being held in Yekaterinburg The remains of Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their daughters were unearthed in Yekaterinburg in 1991 as the Soviet Union was collapsing. After genetic tests convinced forensics experts of their authenticity, they were buried in 1998 in a cathedral in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas and his family in 2000, even as it expressed doubts that the remains were indeed those of the czar's family. The remains of Alexei and Maria, however, had never been located, leading to decades of speculation that perhaps one or both had survived. Last summer, researchers dug up the bone shards near Yekaterinburg and enlisted Russian and U.S. laboratories to conduct DNA tests. "The main genetic laboratory in the United States has concluded its work with a full confirmation of our own laboratories' work," Rossel told reporters. "This has confirmed that indeed it is the children. It was unclear which laboratory Rossel was referring to but a genetic research team working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has been involved in the process. The press service for Russian Orthodox Church said no one could comment on the discovery.
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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)
Lesson: Kill Communists before they kill you and NEVER allow them traction in a Civil War or Revolution. They're snakes and their heads should be chopped off and their bodies burned...
Do you trust their integrity, or have they been bought off?
It's a dirty job but somebody better do it.
Who knows? That will be the claim, anyway, cause those who have something to gain will continue to make claims about being the heirs. Not really important; just thought it was interesting, esp. in view of what is going on in the world today. It is always good to remember the natures of the men who wish to rule other men; murderers of women and children. Just like what is going on in Iraq and many other parts of the world today. Same types of men. Starting in DC.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. ++++++++++ Attention, Shrub; A life of evil is ultimately a life of wretchedness.
The longevity for a Russian man is like 57, although Putin is improving those odds.
“President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years,” “Maybe a hundred ... ... that’d be fine with me,” McCain responds
#2. To: richard9151 (#0)
a genetic research team working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has been involved in the process.
#3. To: angle (#2)
Do you trust their integrity, or have they been bought off?
#4. To: richard9151, *Russia* (#0)
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In 1991 life expectancy in Russia was 74.3 years for females and 63.5 years for males. By 1994 the figure for males was 57.3 years.
Hillary: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran in the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."
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