The Moscow Times
Sunday 17th March, 2013
Vladimir Putin said Friday that he supports creating a national database of prospective adoptive parents and organizing a nationwide conference of orphanage headmasters, proposals aimed at improving care and reducing the number of Russian orphans in state wardship. More than 125,000 Russian orphans live in state institutions, and the government has been under pressure to find more humane alternatives since banning U.S. adoptions on Jan. 1 in an apparent tit-for-tat prompted by a U.S. law that calls for sanctions on Russians suspected of rights abuses. Critics said the ban put politics before…
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