Russian Church urges not to hurry confirming Identification
Russian Church urges not to hurry confirming identification of Crown Prince Alexey and Grand Princess Mary’s probable Remnants
Moscow, June 16, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church urges not to hurry to officially confirm identification of remnants found in 2007 not far from Yekaterinburg, which, according to investigators, belong to Nicholas II’s children.
“I believe that nothing makes us hurry today. Funerals will tempt us to think that we can draw a line under the affair. However, it’s not true,” head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin told Interfax-Religion on Wednesday.
Commenting on the recent statement made by the Senior Criminalist of the Forensic Science Office at the Russian Prosecutor’s Investigative Committee Vladimir Solovyov that the remains found in 2007 indeed belonged to Crown Prince Alexey and Grand Princess Mary, Fr. Vsevolod urged “to seriously compare all scientists’ divergent positions” on the question.
Besides, the Moscow Patriarchate official believes it necessary to compare “results of the investigation held under Kolchak to the current investigation and still the most important is to name those who are guilty.”