The project was promoted by some members of the formations New peoplethe communist partythe Liberal Democratic Party from Russia and Fair Russiaand has to be approved by both chambers and signed by the president Vladimir Putin to come into effect.
According to the promoters of the law, the fact that states hostile to Russia can raise Russian minors is “a blow to the future of the nation.”
Background
If passed, the bill would expand a 2012 law that barred American families from adopting Russian children.
In 2012, Moscow banned the adoption of Russian children by American families to punish Washington for the approval of a law that sanctioned the Russian officials implicated in the death in prison of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
Since the law was introduced, the number of Russian children adopted by foreign families has dropped dramatically.
At the time, this situation caused a wave of protests because it turned Russian orphans into victims of a confrontation between USA and Russia.
Which countries would join?
The new proposal, published on the website of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, proposes to extend the ban to citizens of countries “committing unfriendly actions” against Russia.
After Russia decided to send its troops to Ukraine on February 24, Western countries adopted a series of sanctions against Moscow.
As a consequence, President Putin decided to expand the list of what he calls “hostile” countries, which now includes the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and all member countries of the European Union (EU).
Some 240 Russian children were adopted abroad in 2019, compared to 2,604 in 2012.
Source: Ambito
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