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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lawmakers in the Duma said they wanted to ensure that adopted children would not go through gender-reassignment - Copyright AFP DENIS LOVROVIC Lawmakers in the Duma ...

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 ...