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Mayor of St. Petersburg bans foreign adoptions
Published: 07 September, 2010, 22:10
Edited: 01 October, 2010, 15:03
TAGS: Children, Crime, Russia, Prime Time Russia
Valentina Matvienko has urged local social services to prevent adoptions by foreigners.
The Mayor said that today, St. Petersburg is a lot more capable of caring for children who need homes.
If, back in 2005, there were only 35 foster families in the city who could take care of Russian children, now the figure reaches more than 500.
Matvienko also promised that the city hall would increase financial aid to their orphans.
The Mayor believes that Russian children would have a much happier life in Russia than abroad. The best proof, she said, are the recent high-profile cases of violence against adopted Russian children in the US.
“Stop torturing our kids,” the Mayor added. “Don’t be carried away with these fancy international adoptions”.
The measure comes after the case of US citizen Leshchinski, who was torturing three teenage sisters, adopted from Russia. The details of the incident surfaced about a week ago when one of the girls came to school with a bruise. As it turned out, the children were forced to run, do push-ups and even beat each other.
The adoption issue has long been in the spotlight of both Russian and the international press.
In 2009, 7-year-old Ivan Skorobogatov was beaten to death – his foster family now faces the death penalty. Another adopted boy, three-year-old Dmitry Yakovlev, died in 2008 of heat-stroke after he was left and locked in a car in the sun, while his father went to work. In total, 15 Russian children died in the US after being adopted since 1996.
The last was the case of 7-year-old Artyom Savelyev, who was rejected by his adoptive mother and sent back to Russia on a transatlantic flight with just a note attached to him, stating “I refuse him”.
As a result, adoptions to the US were frozen until a bilateral agreement is reached on the children’s safety.
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How about the children who were adopted by russian parents and given back to orphanage when tax savings ran out? Every third child...
We can do our best to keep their history, language and culture as well as any native Russian if we commit to do it. I do agree adopted children will not live in a total Russian atmosphere as foreign parents are not from this nationality, however, they'll also be fluent in other languages, histoy and cultures than just Russian ones. In my case, I learnt to speak Russian in a conversation level in order to be as much "Russian" as I could, knowing that it's almost impossible for me to reach the level of any Russian at these topics, but not at all in loving or taking care of my childrens.
My husband and I are interested to adopt a babygirl from Russia. Very sad for what happens with those angels, hope they pay for that forever in jail. Now it is hard to find an agency here in USA any advise???Thank you!!