Putin Orders Ban on Adoptions by LGBT Foreign Couples – Report

RT ^ | 3/28/13

[marshmallow]

The Russian president has opposed the adoption of Russian orphans by LGBT foreign couples, and has instructed the government and the Supreme Court to prepare changes to existing law before July 1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order will most likely be fulfilled by the Ministry of Education and Science, which is currently dealing with issues concerning orphans and adoptions, Izvestia daily reported.

The ministry has not yet commented on the news, saying that Putin’s instructions had not yet reached their office.

Tensions over the issue arose in mid-February, after the French National Assembly voted to legalize adoptions by same-sex couples. At the time, the Russian plenipotentiary for children’s rights Pavel Astakhov said he would do everything to ensure that Russian orphans are only adopted by heterosexual families.

In mid-February, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that it planned to verify the possible “psychological damage” inflicted on Russian orphan Yegor Shabatalov, who was adopted by a US woman who lived in a same-sex marriage with another US citizen, but concealed her relationship from Russian authorities when she filed the adoption request. Two years after adopting the Russian boy, the couple split and started a legal dispute over parental rights.

[cunning_fish]

A lot of that you have said is true but I keep standing my point. Putin’s Russia offers much more opportunities and it is clearly visible. People developing ways to prosper below radar of corrupt government officials and as their number is growing they have chance to become an active majority to change situation for better. It wasn’t a case under Yeltsin when people were starving. They wanted no freedom or liberties selling their votes for food and vodka.

[annalex]

The improvements that you think are “visible” are the result of a new generation that grew up free from communist indoctrination in the intervening 22 years, and of high oil prices.

Putinism prevents a far wider and deeper progress from occurring.

[annalex]

I also wanted to add: there is a difference between exposing the dangers of liberalism in the West and making useless caricatures. In Russian-language blogosphere you often see caricatures. Children adopted from poorly run orphanages by well-meaning American couples are invariably described as brutalized and brainwashed, based on a few tragic instances of adoptions going wrong. In another example, if you read the descriptions of what Halloween or Valentine’s Day are, you’d think that the American nation devotes itself to enthusiastic Satan worship and sex orgies. It is plain old Soviet anti-Americanism in a modified dressing.