Russian Children Adoption

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  "Treated Like Animals": Ukraine Children Return After Alleged Deportation

  More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a long operation to bring them back home from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea, where they had been taken from areas occupied by Russian forces during the war.

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  6,000 Ukrainian Children Held For "Political Re-Education" In Russia: Report

  Some of the children were moved through the system and adopted by Russian families, or moved into foster care in Russia, the report said.

• Russia to ban married foreign gays from adopting

  Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin backs ban on adoption by foreign gay couples

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he would give his backing to a proposed ban on the adoption of Russian children by foreign gay couples but denied there was discrimination against homosexuals in his country.

• Adopted Russian boy murdered by US mother: Moscow

  A woman in the US state of Texas has killed her adopted Russian son, the Kremlin's envoy for children said on Monday, outlining the latest alleged abuse of an adopted Russian child by American parents.

• Russia to allow 'some orphans' to be adopted in US

  Russian children whose adoptions have already been approved by courts will go to the United States despite a blanket ban on all American adoptions, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday.

• Russian ban on US adoptions comes into force

  Russia's controversial ban on adoptions of Russian children by American families came into force on Tuesday, days after its signing by President Vladimir Putin sparked an international outcry.

• Sick orphans 'biggest losers' in Russian anti-US adoption law

  Sick or handicapped children will be the biggest losers in a Russian law banning adoption of Russian children by American families, adoption agencies have warned.

• Vladimir Putin signs bill banning American adoptions of Russian children

  President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday banning Americans from adopting Russian children, the Kremlin said.

• Vladimir Putin vows to sign anti-US adoption bill

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin vowed on Thursday to sign a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children that has added new strains to the uneasy relations between the former Cold War foes.

• Russian parliament endorses anti-US adoption bill

  Defying a storm of domestic and international criticism, Russia moved toward finalising a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, as Parliament's upper house voted unanimously in favour of a measure that President Vladimir Putin has indicated he will sign into law.