http://www.imperialhouse.ru/rus/dynastynews/news/2009/900.htmlRecognition of the House of Romanovs will cost the State nothing more than a sheet of paper
Alexander Sunset, Director of the Office of the House of Romanov, told about why Romanovs in Russia and seek to put any special conditions for the return
Moscow. June 6. INTERFAX.RU - Director of the Office of the House of Romanov sunsets Alexander said in an interview with a correspondent of "Interfax" Catherine Komissar that living in Spain, head of the Imperial House Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna seeking to permanently move to Russia
Does House of Romanov's return to Russia, and when this might happen?For the Russian imperial house of Russia is the only homeland. All the years of exile the imperial family lived thought about returning. She believed in it in the darkest years of communist dictatorship. As soon as possible, already in 1991 began a gradual return of the House of Romanov in Russia. This was the first visit of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich in St. Petersburg.
After his death in 1992 responsibility for the fate of the dynasty behind on his daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna. She had about 60 visits to the Russian Federation, overtake the nearly all regions - from Smolensk to Vladivostok, and visiting some of the state that emerged after the collapse of the USSR, now independent, but belonging to a single civilizational historical and cultural space of the former Russian Empire.
The Imperial family is seeking to move to Russia for permanent residence. This is sure to happen as soon as legal issues with respect to the dynasty.
Will the House of Romanov's claim of official status in Russia, there were talks on the matter with Russian officials?The Imperial House has not requested, not required and is not going to do that. But we must understand that the legal state and civil society can not exist without reliance on traditional historical institution.
The historical institution - it is a corporation, with obvious continuity since its inception, and living on their respective domestic laws of history, because they do not contradict the Constitution and current legislation. Those in Russia are the Russian Orthodox Church with its canon law, the Russian Imperial House of Romanov with his dynastic right. More recently, the Church in our country had no legal status. Now, church-state relations develop on a truly right, mutually acceptable and mutually supportive manner. The State has been legal and protocol forms of respect for the Orthodox church, the other traditional religions. Similarly, by analogy, being a republican, it may find forms of recognition of the Russian Imperial House, and cooperation with them. This can be done in the existing legal framework of Russian Federation, not entering into conflict with the republican democratic government.
In the event that the principal solutions authoritative commission, consisting of professional lawyers and historians, to produce relevant documents. Emphasize that the legal recognition of the Russian imperial house of modern Russian state, contrary to some irresponsible and unsubstantiated allegations, has nothing to do with the restitution of property, nor with the "public charge" the imperial family. Both are clearly and categorically rejected by the head of the dynasty Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna. Status - this is not the personal preferences and privileges of members of the House of the Romanovs by the State, but just a manifestation of respect for the intangible to the dynasty, which more than 300 years of rule our country and made it famous personalities such as: Peter I, Catherine the Great, Alexander the Liberator Alexander Peacemaker.
It is a living symbol of our past, without respect to which we do not build the present and future. Matters of life and work of the House of Romanov in Russia, of course, be resolved through the voluntary assistance of compatriots. State recognition of the Imperial House will cost no more than a sheet of paper, which formalize the related document. A benefit and profit, as a spiritual or material will be highly visible, which showed similar precedents in our neighboring countries. The position of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna about the return of the imperial family for permanent residence in the homeland and the status of the Imperial House is a public and notorious. But no "negotiations" about it with anyone from the officials have not yet been.