In 2024, foreign adoptions from Russia completely stopped: for the first time in at least 15 years, not a single child was adopted by foreign citizens, according to data from the Ministry of Education ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s parliament on Tuesday ratified a long-awaited agreement with the United States regulating the adoption of Russian children by Americans. The ratification by a 244-96-2 vote in ...

DALLAS Last week,an American mother sent her adopted Russian son back overseas. She put him on a plane alone with note saying she couldn't handle it. That action has had a ripple affect in North Texas ...

Russia’s parliament on Friday defeated a motion that would have prevented Americans from adopting Russian children. The motion was put forward in reaction to the case of Artyom Savelyev, an 8-year-old ...

Confusion puts at risk pending adoptions of nearly 300 Russian children. MOSCOW April 15, 2010— -- U.S. and Russian officials have issued conflicting statements today about whether adoptions by ...

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Russian lawmakers have moved to outlaw adoption by people from countries where gender-affirming care is legal. Russian language outlet Zona Media reports that the State Duma, the lower house of the ...

Russia is developing legislation that would ban child adoption by citizens of countries that recognize the right to change gender, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, or State Duma, ...

Potential adoptees are caught between the United States and Russia's political rivalry. The implementation of the Dima Yakovlev Law has raised a significant debate, eliciting stark reactions from ...

Russian officials announced Thursday that they would suspend adoptions by American families, but the U.S. State Department said it had received no notification of a suspension, leaving would-be ...