Proposed Russian ban dismays US adoption groups

Published December 21, 2012 10:11pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — U.S.-based advocates of international adoption, who have grown accustomed to discouraging news in recent years, have a new cause for dismay: a bill moving through Russia’s parliament that would bar Americans from adopting Russian children.

The measure, which won overwhelming approval Friday in the lower house of parliament, is retaliation for a new U.S. law imposing sanctions on Russians deemed to be human rights violators.

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