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Friday, December 28, 2012

Russian Adoptee Fighting Russian Government

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he will sign a controversial bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a defiant move against the U.S. that has angered some Russians who argue it victimizes children to make a political point.

The law would block dozens of Russian children expected to be adopted by American families from leaving the country and cut off one of the main international routes for Russian children to leave often dismal orphanages. Russia is the single biggest source of adopted children in the U.S., with more than 60,000 Russian children being taken in by Americans over the past two decades.

The bill is retaliation for an American law that calls for sanctions against Russians deemed to be human rights violators and part of an increasingly confrontational stance by the Kremlin against the West.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

putin is a clown, boris yeltsin was a lot more fun, sort of like a russian bubba.

Anonymous said...

Good.then keep the thousands of Russians from entering o.c. alone that come here to work and help their economy. And ban them period from the u.s. all together.America should ban all adoptions out of this country anyway. To many children here needing homes.