Topic: Moscow

US, Russia close to agreement on adoptions: official

US officials said Tuesday a deal was close to being signed with Moscow on new rules for adoption, months after a US woman sparked outrage by putting her adopted son on a plane alone back to Russia.Russia imposed a de-facto ban on ...

Russian boy's rejection threatens U.S. adoptions

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The news that an American woman rejected her adopted son and sent him back to Russia alone is just a new twist on a familiar tragedy for adoptive parent Svetlana Shashina: she has seen it happen before.When Shashina and ...
Status of US adoptions in Russia unclear as returned adopted boy celebrates 8th birthdayRussian and U.S. officials gave birthday gifts Friday to the 8-year-old boy who was returned to Russia by his adoptive American mother, as Russia sent conflicting signals about whether ...
Petition drive in US urges Russia not to freeze adoptions despite furor over abandonmentWorried over a threatened freeze of adoptions from Russia, thousands of American adoption advocates are petitioning leaders of the two nations to prevent such a step even as they ...

Russia to put boy in U.S. adoption case in foster home

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top Russian official said on Friday he hoped to quickly place an adopted boy into foster care one week after he was sent home alone from the United States, sparking a halt to all U.S. adoptions by Russia.Artyom ...
Russia threatens to suspend US adoptions after woman sends 7-year-old boy back to Moscow aloneRussia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a 7-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a one-way flight ...

How to adopt from Russia

The first thing to do after deciding to adopt from Russia, is to choose an international adoption agency! Are you open to a non-Caucasian child from Russia, or a child of "mixed heritage? " Many Russians who adopt, as well as people ...