[old-ager]

The United States does not recognize dual citizenship. You received the perspective of the US.

Russia still considers US adoptees as Russian citizens who legally left Russia. They can go back if they wish.

[WayneS]

While the place of my son's birth birth is listed on the document as a small village in the Ural mountains, my wife and I are listed as his natural, "birth parents" on his final Russian-issued birth certificate; which we received after the adoption was finalized. This means that legally, both in Russia and the United States, our son was born to us (U.S. citizens), in Russia. [ Perhaps, unbeknownst to us, we were hiking the Urals during early winter of 2001; I don't know, my memories ARE a bit dodgy from that time period... ;-) ]

However, unless Russia, like the United States, considers everyone born within their country (even to non-citizens) a citizen, then I am pretty sure they have acknowledged that our son is not a Russian citizens. That is, I think, the very reason they took the step of listing his adoptive parents as his official "birth parents" on our his birth certificate.