Kyrgyz traffic police shot and wounded Maxim Zotov near Russia's Kant airbase on Sunday, saying he had started a fight, and been shot accidently. Russia denied the officer had done anything wrong.
The Russian Embassy handed a note to Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday demanding a joint commission be set up to investigate the incident.
The embassy said under bilateral agreements regulating the deployment of the Russian base in the ex-Soviet republic, "military personnel have immunity to arrest, detention and searches."
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry said on Monday the Russian officer and his friends had ignored police orders to stop their vehicle and warning shots had been fired. The officer, who the ministry alleges was drunk, started a fight when he was stopped.
Russia insists the Russian servicemen were forced out of their car, thrown face down onto the ground and beaten, one of them received a severe gunshot wound, when "unknown men wearing police uniforms" fired several shots at them.
Kant base officials denied reports that Zotov was drunk at the time of the incident citing the results of a medical check he underwent at a Kant hospital following the shooting.
Russia has a military airbase at Kant, some 20 miles west of the capital Bishkek, it opened in 2003 under an agreement of the regional post-Soviet security group CSTO.
The United States also has a military base in the country to support anti-terrorism operations in Afghanistan following the military campaign against the Taliban in 2001.
Former Kyrgyz prime minister and opposition leader Felix Kulov called the incident outrageous on Monday.
"I am sure using weapons could have been avoided. An independent investigation into the incident must be conducted in cooperation with Russian representatives. This would remove unnecessary questions," Kulov said.
