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Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has sent the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a letter inviting to discuss criminal investigations into the crimes committed by American adoptive parents against Russian children.

The official text is as follows

Dear Mr. Holder!

Russia’s Investigative Committee is sending you compliments and is honored to address you on the following issue.

We had a meeting in the Investigative Committee on 15 may 2012, where we mutually agreed that violence against Russian children adopted by American families was a serious problem. Under the agreement the issue of child protection was defined as one of priorities for cooperation between Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and Department of Justice of the United States of America.

However, unfortunately, we have to state that the unfavorable situation connected with the abovementioned problem has not significantly improved.

Thus, the Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee is now investigating criminal cases initiated over violence that took place in USA against minor Sergey Nakonechny (Luke Alexander Evans), Nikita Khoryakov (Zakari Louis Higier), Dmitry Yakovlev (Harrison Chase Dmitry), Ksenia Antonova (Ksenia Mae Blanford), Yelena Zhivodrova (O`Brien Yelena Maibusch), Sergey Zhivodrov (O`Brien Sergey Maibusch), Leonid Zhivodrov (O`Brien Leonid Maibusch), Kristina Zhivodrova (O`Brien Kristina Maibusch), Daniil Kichun (Daniel Alexander Sweeney), Ilya Kargyntsev (Dykstra Isaac Jonathan), Anna Pochotnaya (Logan Anna Higginbotham), Ivan Skorobogatov (Craver Nathaniel Michael), Maxim Babayev (Kaleb Maxim Traylor).

We would appreciate it if you could provide information on the position of the U.S. attorneys concerning the criminal cases being investigated by U.S. competent bodies over the crimes committed in the territory of the United States of America against adopted Russian children as well as on the measures being taken within the attorneys’ jurisdiction to prevent further violence against minors.

Given our mutual desire to solve these problems and taking into account agreements reached earlier, I would like to invite you to pay a working visit to the Russian Federation at any time you find convenient to discuss the situation and possible ways to settle it.

We express our gratitude beforehand and confirm our readiness to further cooperation.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation                                   A.I. Bastrykin