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The body of Alexander Dolmatov, a member of the unregistered body The Other Russia, who committed suicide in the Netherlands, has arrived in the Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport from Amsterdam.

“We have met a plane from Amsterdam. Alexander Dolmatov’s body has arrived in Russia. The date of the wake and funeral will be announced in the next few days,” Alexander Averin, the press officer for The Other Russia, said on Twitter.

Dolmatov was a The Other Russia activist and a constructor with a leading Russian defense enterprise. In mid-January, Dolmatov allegedly committed suicide in a deportation center in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) for unclear reasons. Dolmatov, who feared prosecution for the mass riots that occurred on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, was denied political asylum in the Netherlands because the Dutch authorities found that the risk for him was minimal in the event of his return to Russia.

The Russian authorities will insist on an investigation into Dolmatov’s death in the Netherlands, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference on January 23. The Russian authorities are hoping the investigation into Dolmatov’s death will be completed in the near future, Russian Foreign Ministry official Alexander Lukashevich said on January 31.