Vladimir Solovyov of the Russian Investigative Committee
The Russian Investigative Committee is prepared to examine new evidence on the execution of the Russian imperial family available to the Russian Orthodox Church, but does not doubt that the "Yekaterinburg remains" are authentic.
"If new evidence has emerged, we will gladly study it and we are prepared for cooperation," Vladimir Solovyov, the senior forensic investigators of the Investigative Committee's Main Forensic Department, who investigated the execution of the family of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, told Interfax on Thursday,
"We have no doubts that the remains found near Yekaterinburg are those of members of the tsar's family and their domestic servants," he said.
This was vividly proven in tests, conducted in 2007-2008, he added.
"Absolutely unique tests were conducted with samples of Nicholas II's blood. The genotype of the blood on Nichols II's shirt after he was wounded in Japan in 1891 fully coincided with the genotype of skeleton No.4. This genotype can be clearly tracked to heir to the throne Alexey," he said.
"Whichever new objects may be produced, we will gladly study them. I am sure they will prove again, as it happened over the past 20 years, that the remains of the imperial family were buried [near Yekaterinburg]," Solovyov said.
Neither the Russian Orthodox Church, nor the House of Romanov has recognized the authenticity of the remains, citing the absence of sufficient evidence.
It emerged on Thursday that the Moscow Patriarchate could change its position on the "Yekaterinburg remains."
© Interfax. 26 July, 2012
Updated: Thursday, 26 July 2012 12:06 PM EDT
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