The Russian Foreign Ministry says all adoptions of Russian children by American families have been suspended until a high level State Department delegation, due in Russia this weekend, works out an agreement with their Russian counterparts to better protect the rights of children.<\/p>\n
Today State Department sources were caught unawares by the announcement of a freeze. A U.S. diplomatic source told me “we don’t know anything about it, the Russians have told us nothing officially”.<\/p>\n
There are 232 U.S. families currently adopting 281 Russian children. Their cases and the fates of those kids are suddenly in limbo because their are reports of Russian Courts now delaying adoption procedures unsure what the Russian Government has decided.\u00a0 Originally a freeze on adoptions was only to apply to future adoptions, not adoptions pending where parents have already spent several years trying to adopt Russian children.<\/p>\n
The adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens, which is now suspended, will be possible in the future only if such an agreement is reached,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on state television today.<\/p>\n
The freeze follows the highly publicized case of a 7 year old Russian boy, adopted by a mother in Tennessee last year, then last thursday sent alone on a plane back to Russia because she claimed he was psychotic and dangerous and that she had been misled by the Russian orphanage. The ‘return to sender’ infuriated Russian officials including President Medvedev who called it a “monstrous act” to abandon the boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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