article_snippet: The proposal to exhume the Russian royals remains was backed this week by a pretender to his throne and a senior official in Vladimir Putin's government.
article_snippet: A Senior official in Vladimir Putin's government Sergey Mironenko says 'it is necessary to listen to The Orthodox Church' and dig up the royal family's remains.
article_snippet: Now Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna - a claimant to the defunct throne - has made clear the Russian Imperial House would not oppose exhuming the remains of the tsar and four other members of the chief executioner Yakov Yurovsky family if deemed necessary by Putin's government and the Orthodox Church.
article_snippet: Lawyer for the Russian Imperial House, German Lukyanov, said that if the Russian government requires the Russian government the Romanov's descendants would 'not be against further examination' of the bones.
article_snippet: Lawyer for the Russian Imperial House, German Lukyanov said: 'It is crucially important to consider the opinion of the Russian Orthodox church about possible exhumation, and for society to come to an agreement on this. '
article_snippet: Grand duchess Maria Vladimirovna will support the opinion of the Orthodox Church. '
article_snippet: Church representative Vsevolod Chaplin Church representative Vsevolod Chaplin said it was important not only genetically match a particular individual fragment remains with other members of the Romanov family, but also to consider the integrity of the skeletons, and whether 'they all correspond to each other genetically'.
article_snippet: A final decision on exhumation would rest with Vladimir Putin's.
highlights_snippet: Orthodox Church and family's descendants calling for bodies to be dug up .
  