article_snippet: Pressure is mounting in Moscow to exhume the bones of the tragic last Russian emperor and his family amid doubts expressed by the Russian Orthodox Church as to the Russian Orthodox Church authenticity.
article_snippet: Exhaustive DNA tests were conducted in Britain and the US involving matches with living relatives, including Prince Philip, after which they were interred in a crypt in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in royal capital St Petersburg in a 1998 ceremony.
article_snippet: The Orthodox Church refuses to accept the opinion of leading DNA experts who say the bones are those of the tsar Nicholas II (top left), his German-born empress Alexandra (bottom right) and The Orthodox Church children .
article_snippet: Sergey Mironenko, the senior archivist under Putin, said on Spas TV: 'To find out the truth it is necessary to listen to the church representatives and exhume the remains that were buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral.'
article_snippet: Behind the controversy is the Orthodox Church refusal to accept the opinion of a host of leading DNA experts in Russia and the West who say the bones originally found buried in 1979 in the Urals forest are those of the tsar Nicholas II, his German-born empress Alexandra and a host of leading DNA experts in Russia and the West who say the bones originally found buried in 1979 in the Urals forest children.
article_snippet: Despite the bones being interred in 1998 close to other Romanov rulers at a ceremony when tsar lookalike Prince Michael of Kent represented the Queen, the Orthodox Church has refused to accept the Orthodox Church are unequivocally the bones.
article_snippet: the remains that were buried in Peter and Paul CathedralAlexei .
article_snippet: the Orthodox Church refused to bury the remains that were buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral with the rest of the remains that were buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral family, claiming the scientific proof was insufficient, yet genetic experts say the scientific proof is '80 trillion times more likely' that the bones were Alexei's than not.
article_snippet: Senior official Mironenko was 'strongly against' burying the supposed remains of the crown prince and Senior official Mironenko sister without new tests which satisfy the Orthodox Church.
article_snippet: the Orthodox Church stress the bones said to be the tsar's did not show marks from a sword wound in this attack.
highlights_snippet: Church refuses to believe DNA experts who said bodies belong to royals .