Genetic tests confirmed beyond reasonable doubt that bones found in Siberia in 1991 were those of Russia's last tsar and his family, AP reports from Moscow. Pavel Ivanov, who examined the remains with a British team, said it was 99.9 per cent certain the bones were those of the tsar, his wife Alexandra and three of their four daughters.
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