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 ...

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 ...

Confusion puts at risk pending adoptions of nearly 300 Russian children. MOSCOW April 15, 2010— -- U.S. and Russian officials have issued conflicting statements today about whether adoptions by ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a bill on Saturday banning the adoption of Russian children by people who live in countries where gender-affirming care is legal, according to a report in the ...

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MOSCOW — Authorities said Thursday they have halted the work of all foreign adoption agencies in Russia for several months, virtually shutting down the placement of children from one of the most ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...