MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - A lawyer for descendants of Russia's former imperial family said Wednesday that he had appealed a Moscow district court's refusal to recognize the nation's last tsar as a victim of political repression.
German Lukyanov, representing the Russian Imperial House in exile, claims Nicholas II and his immediate family were executed in 1918 on the Bolshevik government's orders and is pressing for them to be cleared of all political charges.
Last Thursday, the Tverskoi court rejected his appeal against a refusal by the Prosecutor General's Office to classify the imperial family's killing as an act of state-sponsored repression rather than a murder.
"Since we have not yet received the full text of the ruling from the Tverskoi court, we have lodged a brief complaint with the Moscow City Court, asking that it [the ruling] be invalidated," Lukyanov said.
