Profile: Controversy surrounding the canonization of Russia's Czar Nicholas II

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Profile: Controversy surrounding the canonization of Russia's Czar Nicholas II

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In Moscow today, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church opened meetings that are expected to approve the canonization of 800 so-called martyrs. These new saints will include victims of Stalin' s regime and perhaps the best-known casualties of the Bolshevik revolution, Czar Nicholas II and his family. The royal family members were killed in 1918. But as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, controversy ...

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