Preliminary results of genetic analysis carried out on the remains found in the Urals show that they belong to the Russia’s last Czar’s children. “Tests conducted in “Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk region) and Moscow allowed DNA to be extracted from the bones, which proved positive,” Sverdlovsk region chief forensic expert Nikolai Nevolin told Russian news agencies on Tuesday. “Once the genetic analysis has been completed in Russia, its results will be compared with test results from foreign experts,” Nevolin said, adding that the final results will be published in April or May.

The controversy surrounding the fate of the family members of the last Czar Nicholas II surfaced again when Russian archaeologists claimed last July that they have found the remains of two of the children of the last Czar.