MOSCOW, April 4 - RAPSI. Russia's Foreign Ministry said there were inconsistencies in the investigation documents on Maxim Kuzmin death, reads Konstantin Dolgov's statement posted on the ministry website on Wednesday.

Dolgov, Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, reports that the preliminary analysis of the autopsy results received from the US raises questions as to the investigators' thoroughness and the rationale for their refusal to indict Alan and Laura Shatto, the adoptive parents of the Russian boy who died in Texas earlier this year.

In particular, the US investigator did not give an opinion on whether the Heimlich Maneuver Laura Shatto used on the boy could have caused the laceration to the small bowel mesentery artery which led to his death.

Russian officials believe that the inconsistencies in the documents are sufficient reason to demand the return of the boy's half brother, Kirill, adopted by the same couple.
Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov announced the death of the boy on February 18. He tweeted that the child had been given powerful "psychotropic substances," and was badly beaten. Maxim Kuzmin died in a hospital on January 21.

On March 1, the Texas authorities announced that based on the autopsy results the boy's death was not criminal. The four doctors who reviewed the results ruled the death accidental.