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Prince Michael Gifted 320,000 pounds by Berezovsky – paper

19:58 13/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti)

Russian UK-based tycoon Boris Berezovsky has provided Prince Michael of Kent with 320,000 pounds in the past six years, The Sunday Times said quoting court documents.

Gorbachev Russia’s Most Unpopular Leader - Survey
13:58 02/02/2012
Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are Russia’s most unpopular leaders of the past century, according to a survey by Russia’s state-run VTsIOM pollster published on Thursday.
Tsar’s Children monument opened in Sverdlovsk Region
20:34 16/11/2011
The ceremony opening the monument to the children of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II was held at the monastery in Ganina Yama near Yekaterinburg.
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08:28 28/10/2011
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Investigative committee declares tsar family remains ‘authentic’
13:15 27/10/2011
The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed on Thursday that the remains of Russia’s tsar family buried in St. Petersburg’s St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, as well as the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II’s children Alexei and Maria, which still remain unburied, were authentic.
Russian government asked to rebury remains of 2 Romanov children
17:08 13/10/2011
A group of Russian scholars, public figures, and descendants of the last tsar, Nicholas II, have drafted a letter asking the Russian prime minister to authorize the reburial of the remains of two royal children.

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