MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax) - Moscow was concerned by reports from the U.S. saying that experts ruled the death of a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy, Maxim Kuzmin (Max Shatto), an accident, Russian Foreign Ministry human rights, democracy and rule of law commissioner Konstantin Dolgov said in a statement.
"We presume that we are dealing not with final investigation conclusions," Dolgov said in the statement available on the Foreign Ministry website.
Russia still expects the U.S. authorities, including the Texas state authorities and the Department of State, to provide as full as possible information on the investigation's process and results, Dolgov said. "We regret to acknowledge that, once again, we have received information regarding Maxim Kuzmin's death not from U.S. official representatives but from the media," Dolgov said.
"We demand that the U.S. side provide Russian diplomatic and consular officials in the U.S. with relevant forensic medical study documents, including Maxim Kuzmin's death certificate, and return his Russian passport (which has still not been done)," he said.
"Only after examining these documents can we make substantive conclusions regarding the circumstances of the Russian child's death and decide on our possible further steps," he said.