A Russian region bans foreign adoptions: Kemerovo…

KemerovoIn a growing movement across Russia and a movement not without a reasonable backing. The government of the coal-mining territory of Kemerovo, voted to completely end adoptions of any local born children by any and all foreigners, making their region the first area of the Russian Federation to introduce such a law…

The official governmental comments to this bill read that, The solution of the problem of adoption of Russian citizens is the internal issue of the Russian state.”

Currently there are two federalized adoption bans in Russia – the ban on adoptions by US citizens and by proxy of US organizations came into force in late December 2012, and the ban on adoptions by foreign same-sex couples was introduced in early July this year…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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