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2015-07-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian prosecutor sez Czar's abdication was illegal

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Posted by badanov 2015-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Putin looking for an angle?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-07-16 00:22|| 2015-07-16 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Putin wants the Romanovs to return to Russia and to reinstate the Russian Royal Family.

Posted by badanov 2015-07-16 00:45|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-07-16 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 By extension, iff the Royals get wiped out by Islamist-Jihadist Terror, Russia will have a legit or credible claim to the throne of Britain, besides the Royal's other local or overseas relations of course.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-07-16 02:25|| 2015-07-16 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 By extension, iff the Royals get wiped out by Islamist-Jihadist Terror, Russia will have a legit or credible claim to the throne of Britain

Russia doesn't have the Romanovs anymore. The last sprigs of the family live in Paris and New York, as I recall, and seem remarkably unsuited to either reign or rule, though perhaps the younger generation has developed skills other than pretentions to the throne. Nor can I imagine Russia successfully enticing the head of the family to move back to Moscow, given the proclivities of the current ruler.

As for the abdication being legal or not, the fact is that the Russian branch of the family was slaughtered, so it was certainly a de facto removal from power, if not de jure -- and with centuries of historical precedent, both at home and abroad.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-07-16 11:03|| 2015-07-16 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps old spook is on to something. The idea of a permanent monarch like Western European democracies, but with real power and a puppet Prime Minister.... so perhaps the idea is to paper his way to the top and enable his plan for Imperium to be legitimized?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-07-16 13:42|| 2015-07-16 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm still waiting for some Russian genealogist to find evidence that Putin's great grandfathe was a Romanov by-blow.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-16 15:52|| 2015-07-16 15:52|| Front Page Top

#7 European royalty --- quite inbred

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-07-16 23:26|| 2015-07-16 23:26|| Front Page Top

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