MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s parliament on Tuesday ratified a long-awaited agreement with the United States regulating the adoption of Russian children by Americans. The ratification by a 244-96-2 vote in ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Kremlin leader also approved ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Members of a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Moscow have urged Russian officials to allow the completion of U.S. adoptions of Russian children, which were caught in limbo by the ...

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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, ...

(AP) The Kremlin has decided to ban Americans from adopting Russian children, but a statement that its adoption deal with the U.S. will remain valid until 2014 has left the status of adoption efforts ...

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 ...