Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of political repression and should be rehabilitated.
The rehabilitation has long been demanded by the tsar's descendants.
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Lower courts had previously refused to reclassify the killings, which had been categorised as simply murder.
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For most of the last century, Tsar Nicholas II was officially reviled as a tyrant. To Russia's Soviet regime, he personified all they had tried to destroy in the revolution of 1917.
(BBC)
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