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. Russian officials had long complained ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — Authorities said Thursday they have halted the work of all foreign adoption agencies in Russia for several months, virtually shutting down the placement of children from one of the most ...

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 ...

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Russia has frozen all adoptions to the United States, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday, as national outrage simmered over a towheaded 7-year-old Russian orphan sent alone on a plane back to Moscow ...

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 ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a bill on Saturday banning the adoption of Russian children by people who live in countries where gender-affirming care is legal, according to a report in the ...

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 ...