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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The first funerals for the victims of the Russian school siege are due to be held. Survivors of the atrocity are still recovering in hospitals in and around the town of Beslan.
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Russia will return so-called trophy art taken from Nazi Germany during World War II only on a case-by-case basis, an official said Friday, arguing that most of the cultural treasures Moscow retains were seized as compensation for huge Soviet wartime damage.
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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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VANCOUVER (CP) - The family of a Canadian slain by Russian security forces in Chechnya wants his body returned to Canada.
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Prosecutors announced Friday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archaeologist reported that he may have found the missing remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne.
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The remains of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, mother of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, will be moved from Denmark to Russia on Saturday, finally fulfilling her wish to rest next to her late husband, Tsar Alexander III.
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MOSCOW, June 21 -- The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that a Chechen woman who had appealed to the court and was subsequently  slain in her home along with three members of her family was "extra-judicially executed by State agents," according to the judgment.
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MOSCOW -- The Russian art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, is going home.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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Silvio Berlusconi's mother died on Sunday, aged 97, news agencies reported, depriving the Italian tycoon of a doting matriarch and a valuable political asset as he faces a possible chance for re-election to lead the country.
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BARNAUL, Russia  - A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child -- doing more than her fair share to stem Russia's population decline -- was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 7.75 kg (17.1 lb).
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Moscow wants a Russian shipping tycoon currently living in Britain to be extradited back to Russia, The Guardian reported on Friday.
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A Russian icon that hung for years in Pope John Paul II's private chapel returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church on Saturday, a gesture the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.The eight white caskets were lowered into new ground at the Defense Forces cemetery in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, foreign diplomats and World War II veterans.'We have fulfilled our duty and given these soldiers their final resting place,' Aaviksoo said after the hour-long ceremony. He said he hoped the reburial would prevent Russia from using the war grave issue in the future 'for provocations against the Republic of Estonia.' Read more
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An exhibition showing Russian women convicted of murder engenders shock and sympathy.