MOSCOW, February 14 - RAPSI. There are no grounds for an international investigation into Russian opposition avtivist Alexander Dolmatov's death in the Netherlands, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.

Alexander Dolmatov, a member of the Other Russia unregistered party, was involved in the case of the Bolotnaya Square rally in Moscow in May 2012. When the police began to arrest suspects in the case, he fled from Russia and sought political asylum in the Netherlands.

Dolmatov's lawyer Yevgeny Arkhipov announced in January that he had committed suicide. Dolmatov was found dead in a Rotterdam deportation centre, where he had been sent after his asylum application had been turned down.

The Russian Foreign Ministry appealed to the Dutch authorities to make a thorough investigation into his death.

The Dutch authorities have not opened an official case over Dolmatov's suicide, but are investigating the circumstances of his death, and have promised to provide exhaustive information to the Russian Embassy.

"As for an international investigation, there are no legal grounds for raising this. The case of Dolmatov's suicide is in the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of the Netherlands where he died. None of the existing international institutions have the jurisdiction to investigate a case of this kind," the Russian Foreign Ministrys statement read.