Reburial for Russia tsar's mother
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The remains of the mother of Russia's last tsar are being buried in St Petersburg, in line with her last wishes.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Relatives wandered among rows and rows of plastic body bags at a morgue yesterday, searching for loved ones who had died at the end of a three-day siege by Chechen rebels the day before.
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Russian archaeologists believe they may have found the remains of two children of the last tsar, executed in 1918.
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A mother has spoken of her loss after the body of a 48-year-old man and a 15-month-old boy were found in a flat.
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MOSCOW -- A Russian icon that hung for years in the private chapel of Pope John Paul II returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday, a gesture that the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
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MOSCOW A Russian icon is back home after hanging for years in Pope John Paul&#39;s private chapel. The Vatican is returning the 18th century replica of the Mother of God of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church
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The widow of murdered Alexander Litvinenko says the Russian authorities could have been behind his death.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.
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The circumstances may be solemn, but Dimitry Romanov is quietly rejoicing. On Saturday, the 80-year-old retired bank clerk will escort the remains of his distant relative Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Russia's last emperor, on a final journey from Denmark to St. Petersburg.
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A Russian tycoon paid about 25 percent more than the estimated price for the art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, a Russian culture official said Tuesday, revealing government involvement in the deal to allow the works to return to their native land.
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Prosecutors said Friday they have reopened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archaeologist said the remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne may have finally been found.
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The mother of a convicted art thief told a court Thursday how she used a hammer to destroy irreplaceable works of art and force them into trashbags upon learning of her son's arrest.
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Arts & entertainment: Royal Academy in London struggling to save  exhibition after Russia withdraws loans of paintings
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Her family did not. Her father was killed and her sister starved to death. When the Russian army arrived, the rest of her family fled into western Germany.
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The sliding doors of the battered Soviet railroad car that Artak Akopian calls home reveal a small space almost as icy as the outdoors. The makeshift quarters are decorated by little but an old photograph of his mother, who was killed in the earthquake that devastated Armenia in December 1988.
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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother told a judge Wednesday she wants to exhume her grandson in the Bahamas and bring his body to Texas to be buried along with his starlet-mother in her native state. Smith's longtime companion, Howard K.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The family of a Canadian slain by Russian security forces in Chechnya wants his body returned to Canada.