The genetic labs located in the United States and Austria have fully completed their testing and examination of the so-called royal remains, yet some procedures are still being carried out in Sverdlovsk Region’s forensic medical examination bureau, Interfax reports.

Head of the bureau Nikolai Nevolin says only a number of tests have been fully finished so far, so the examination will have to be continued.

‘For one, we still haven’t been able to carry out the test related to identifying the presence of hemophilia-causing bits of DNA (Nicolas the Second’s son Alexei was a hemophiliac),’ Nevolin notes.

The remains of two humans (a ten- to fourteen-year-old child and a twenty-year-old woman) bearing signs of violent death were found at Staraya Koptyakovskaya road in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg in July 2007. Some scientists believe these could be the bodies of the last czar’s heir and daughter, Alexei and Maria Romanov.