Russia Opens Criminal Case After 3-Year-Old Boy Dies in U.S.

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Russia opened a criminal case after a three-year-old boy adopted from the country by American citizens died in the U.S., the Investigative Committee said.

Russia is seeking the arrest of the child’s adoptive mother and wants to make her the subject of an international arrest warrant, the law-enforcement agency in Moscow said in a statement on its website today. The country’s investigators also want to be involved in the U.S. probe into the incident, according to the statement.