He told Russia's state-run RIA-Novosti news agency Wednesday that he was satisfied with the new investigation.
Earlier, the RIA-Novosti news agency, quoting a source in the inquiry, said investigators were looking at engine failure as a possible cause of the crash.
"If he is convinced of his innocence, he can fully prove his innocence with the help of a lawyer, " Alexei Mitrofanov, of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party was quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency as saying.
Glass shattered across 200, 000 square kilometers (77, 220 square miles), the state-run RIA Novosti news agency cited the Chelyabinsk regional emergencies ministry as saying Saturday.
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Madonna said she was praying for the three band members, who went on trial Monday charged with hooliganism, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Russia's Investigative Committee has confirmed that it wants to be involved in the process as an "interested party, " the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Friday.
About 3, 000 buildings were damaged -- mostly with broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said.
Authorities arrested three men this week in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia on charges of plotting the attack in a joint operation with Abkhazian security services, the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.
Russia announced that it was carrying "Syrian attack helicopters, " state-run news agency Ria Novosti reported.
Police say that more than 30 adults lived in the warren of rooms, where three people shared each square meter of living space, according to the state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
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Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, head of the Syrian National Coalition, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of an international security conference in Munich, Germany, Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Sergei Filin, 43, was approaching his home around midnight Thursday when the unidentified attacker flung the concentrated acid at him, causing severe burns to his face, the state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported Friday.
The U.S. diplomat had "special technical devices, written instructions for the Russian citizen being recruited, a large sum of cash and means of changing his appearance, " state news agency RIA-Novosti quoted the FSB as saying earlier Tuesday.
Also Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia has no plans to offer al-Assad asylum, state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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He is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin -- who granted the citizenship to him personally by presidential decree -- on Saturday evening, official news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Ilya Kramnik, military analyst for the RIA Novosti news agency, says a jointly developed aircraft will differ significantly from the Russian T-50.
Two of them -- the Volnogorsk and the Nakhichevan -- were already sinking when the third, the Kovel, hit the Volnogorsk and went down, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
The head of space agency Roscosmos said that an investigation into the short-lived spacecraft had discovered that radiation caused a glitch in the onboard computer system, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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