MIKE ECKEL
IN MOSCOW
RUSSIAN prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last tsar and his family nearly 90 years ago after claims that the remains of Alexei, the 13-year-old heir to the throne, may have been found.
The announcement of the reopened inquiry, while a routine matter, signalled that the government appeared to be taking the claims by archaeologist Sergei Pogorelov seriously.
Mr Pogorelov said bones found in a burned area of ground near Yekaterinburg belonged to a boy and a young woman, roughly the ages of Tsar Nicholas II's son, Alexei, and a daughter, Maria, whose remains also never have been found.
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UOC hierarchs: Saints of the Kiev Caves will defend themselves, this will
end poorly for the blasphemers
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On Friday, a state commission was sent to the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves
Lavra to “inspect” the incorrupt relics that lie in the Near and Far Caves.
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