The death of an adopted three-year-old Russian boy in Texas has been ruled an accident, amid ongoing tensions over the case between the US and Moscow.

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Turchak said that the brother of the dead boy, another Russian adoptee, remains in the custody of the adoptive parents.

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David Bezmozgis was born in Latvia and emigrated as a boy to Toronto, growing up in a Russian-Jewish community.

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The boy, Pyotr Nikolayeva, or Peter in Russian, weighed in at 7.9 lbs and is the third child in the Nikolayeva family.

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The world of classical music had become a place without boundaries for him during the two years he spent as a boy in post-war Vienna, where his father edited a newspaper published for Austrians by the Russian occupying forces.

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