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 ...

MONROE, N.C. — A Monroe police lieutenant is turning to Congress for help after a ban on adopting Russian children has threatened her own daughter's case. Lt. TJ Goforth and her husband tried for ...

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 ...

The 2013 Russian adoption ban, a retaliation to the U.S. Magnitsky Act, tragically halted the adoptions of 46 Russian children by American families. This is the story of the children who were caught ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawmakers in the Duma said they wanted to ensure that adopted children would not go through gender-reassignment - Copyright AFP DENIS LOVROVIC Lawmakers in the Duma ...

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, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it planned to suspend adoptions of its children by U.S. citizens after an American woman sent her adopted son back to Moscow on a plane with a note disowning ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s parliament on Tuesday ratified a long-awaited agreement with the United States regulating the adoption of Russian children by Americans. Russian officials had long complained ...