Adopted Russian Boy Claims Cruelty

A teenager adopted by an American couple at age 12 has returned to Russia claiming that his parents treated him badly, according to reports from Russian media with close ties to the Kremlin. Russian media reported that 17-year-old Alexander Abnosov returned from a Philadelphia suburb to his 72-year-old grandmother in the Volga river city of Cheboksary. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia’s best-selling daily, Abnosov, complained that his adoptive mother “was yelling at me for every small thing.” The teenager said, however, that he was on good terms with his adoptive father,…

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