Kazakhstan hopes for fair investigation of Denyakin case

Kazakhstan hopes for a fair investigation of the case on the death of Kirill Denyakin, Tengrinews.kz reports citing representative of Kazakhstan Foreign Affairs Ministry Askar Abdrakhmanov. The last week comment of the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia Robert Blake allows us to hope for a positive outcome, Abdrakhmanov said. “This means that a strong public interest to this case in Kazakhstan, the note sent to the US State Department by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington and a personal meeting of our diplomat in Washington had an effect and this is, to our view, is confirmed by the official reaction of our American counterparts," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry said. Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry thanked American peers for attention to this case. Askar Abdrakhmanov said that Kazakhstan is counting on objective and fair investigation. As per Abdrakhmanov, the Denyakins' lawyers have no doubts about the positive prospects of the legal decision in favor of the family. «The Ministry of Foreign Affairs keeps a close eye on Denyakin's case. The embassy in Washington is in constant contact with the lawyers, authorities of Virginia, US State Department and is closely watching the progress of this case,” Abdrakhmanov said.