MOSCOW, July 17 (UPI) -- People across Russia Thursday commemorated the 90th anniversary of the assassination of Czar Nicholas II and his family.

MOSCOW, July 15 (UPI) -- Josef Stalin and Czar Nicholas II are running neck-and-neck in an online Russian poll to determine the country's most significant historical figure.

MOSCOW, June 24 (UPI) -- Bones found near the execution site of the Romanov family appear likely to be those of the heir to the Russian throne and his sister, authorities said Tuesday.

MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Russia's next president likes heavy metal rock and the Orthodox Church and looks like the last Czar Nicholas. Welcome to the new old Russia.

YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The mystery of what occurred to Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family nearly nine decades ago may have been solved by amateur investigators.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- I don't think it possible for any historian to visit the Baltic countries or the rest of Central Europe and not reflect on the catastrophes World War I brought for that part of the world. Communism, World War II, National Socialism, the extinction of some communities and the expulsion of others, wholesale alteration of national boundaries, all these and more flowed from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. One pebble touched off an avalanche.

MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has reopened a criminal investigation into the execution almost 90 years ago of Czar Nicholas II and his family.

YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Archaeologists working near Yekaterinburg, Russia, say they may have discovered the remains of Prince Alexei and Princess Maria.

UPI almanac for Tuesday, July 17, 2007