Grand Prince Nikolai Nikolayevich, commander of the Russian forces in the early years of World War I
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Aleksandr Kibovsky, Head of the Department of Culture of Moscow, reported that the work on the Transfiguration of Our Lord chapel in the Fraternal Military Cemetery in Moscow is almost complete, so the reburial of Grand Prince Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov (the younger) can go forward. On Wednesday, Kibovsky stated at a meeting of a working group in the Gosduma that the chapel now has a working heat and power supply, and it has a functional alarm system. Kibovsky said, “Thus, the chapel is ready for the ceremony”. In turn, S Ye Naryshkin, the Chairman of the RF Gosduma, said that the Grand Prince’s reburial “would be a special event for Russia and for the Russian World. For four months, we did major work both in Russia and France, holding a series of international negotiations with French authorities at both the municipal and governmental levels”.
Grand Prince Nikolai Nikolayevich, the grandson of Tsar Nikolai I Pavlovich, was the supreme commander of the Russian forces at the beginning of World War I. He died in 1929 at age 72 in France. The remains of the prince and his wife are in the Church of the Archangel Michael in Cannes. Earlier, Russian Ambassador to France Aleksandr Orlov said that they’ve resolved the issue of the exhumations. The reburial of the remains of the Grand Duke and his wife will be in a military cemetery in Moscow. The Grand Prince’s family kept alive his last wish… he wanted to lie in his native land, buried next to his soldiers.
1 April 2015
Interfax-Religion
OSCE Believes that Kiev Junta isn’t in Full Control of their “Armed Forces”
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The autumn session of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly (PA) was in Genève on 3-5 October, devoted to the role of parliaments in new security challenges, particularly in relation to the situation around the Ukraine. S Ye Naryshkin, Chairman of the RF Gosduma, represented Russia. Ilkka Kanerva, the chairman of the PA, who spoke at the opening of the session, stated that the OSCE believes that the Kiev junta isn’t in full control of its “armed forces”, saying, “Responsibility [for following the rules of war] falls on both parties. Kiev also has a responsibility to ensure that its armed forces comply with the code of conduct, in particular, the position that all states party to the OSCE should ensure effective management and control over their military, paramilitary, and security forces. There were alarming reports about certain actions, indicating that not all of them (armed formations) are under effective state control”.
4 October 2014
Novorusinform
http://www.novorosinform.org/news/id/10872