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Russian – US talks on adoption at the final stage

Published: 17 June, 2010, 19:19
Edited: 30 August, 2010, 22:03

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Moscow and Washington have agreed upon basic norms of new measures to regulate the adoption of Russian children by Americans. However, the talks have been extended until Friday evening.

That’s according to Pavel Astakhov, Ombudsman for children’s rights.

All adoption processes  were frozen earlier this year after a seven-year old boy was put on a plane and sent to Moscow alone, by his adoptive US mother.

Since 1996, 15 Russian children have died at the hands of their adoptive US parents. Heavy beating, scalding, starvation – one can find it all in those files.

Last August a Russian boy died allegedly after being beaten up by his foster parents in the US.

They have officially been charged with causing his death and may face death penalty.

Certainly those cases are heavily overshadowing thousands of happy endings, in which Russian orphans ended up in good hands in the US.

The agreement is supposed to outline the responsibilities of the agencies fostering adoption.

Russian officials are focused on details of how exactly the monitoring should be done because, according to Russian Children’s Rights Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, currently Russia has lost track of hundreds of adopted children in the US due to agencies’ failure to report back on those children and their living conditions.

“There is no legal mechanism to regulate or monitor child adoption by foreigners,” said Pavel Astakhov, Ombudsman for children’s rights. “So it is important to have an agreement – intergovernmental treaty, some bilateral agreement or some joint convention that we could be a part of.”

Something that both sides have agreed upon is that there should be no more independent adoptions, only those through competent agencies.

Another issue that is still being discussed, and is very much initiated by Russians, is Russians’ ability to adopt American children. At the moment the number of those is close to zero.

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PR101 June 18, 2010, 14:34
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As evidence by the language used in this short report posted at the Russian state media outlet that runs RT, this deal will see the "steady supply" of Russian children to U.S white middle class parents. The only point that makes sense is that this will help Russia’s geopolitical relation with the U.S. As cynical as this might sounds, it is only idea that makes since in the face of high rate of murders of Russian children in the U.S. But if these children do not learn Russian, their Russian names are erased and are raised with the U.S racialist values, how would they help Mother Russia? There are already millions of Russians in the U.S and their presence in the U.S did not help Mother Russia during the Cold War or after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So why are Russian authorities risking humiliating the national image of Russia with this dubious deals that create legal cover what is basically mass trafficking of abandoned children from Russia to the U.S. Russia is now a land of small class of the filthy rich and massive poverty. This was also the way of life of Russia under imperial Russia era. So, the only period of decent standard of living for all Russian was during the Soviet rule. During the USSR rule, Russia was built into global power. Now, 20 years after the collapse of the USSR, Russia is exporting its children to the U.S! http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100618/159475465.html

Sarah June 18, 2010, 11:19
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DC, it's not a perfect world. Single parents are everywhere. It's difficult to place a child with one, however, because of how fragile the situation is if at first financial, especially the burden of a child not biologically of the person that he or she goes to. As for placing standards, it should be on living because, in the US, that will determine the fate of the being. It was ludicrous that a child was placed with somone who was obviously mentally ill. Several parties share the guilt for that one. Given the system, I would think it wiser for the children to remain in Russia where they have a chance after their younger years -- only a fraction of their lives. It's not like that system is as limited. I suppose it is as a whole afterwards in the sum, but for the ordinary person, there is a greater chance of what the universal declares "success."

Fred June 17, 2010, 13:51
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This is a disgrace!!! a country like Russia that claims it needs to increase it's population should never allow children to be adopted abroad....Americans if they need to adopt children have thousands of children across the border in Mexico, but these racists are looking for white children ...Can't you raise your own citizens even if they are orphans? Give these poor children a decent home in their own country where they belong....you can afford to pay 4th. rate American basketball players and make them citizens to play on your national team, you can start being serious about your children.