Russian Adoptions Halted

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100507/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_adoptions]Russia declines to stop American adoptions - Yahoo! News[/url] [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Is there any way to get the title of this thread changed? Or add a question mark at the end? The title is deceptive...at least right now.[/FONT]

Hi there - I don't know if you could give me some advise. I am from South Africa and would really like to adopt a baby from Russia. Do you perhaps know what route I should go ? Obviously things aren't looking good between Russia & the Usa. But South AFrica doesn't have any foreign agencies ...what can I do ??

one of the Russian newspapers posted the news about the preliminary agreement reached between Russia and the US. No more independent adoptions - everybody has to go through an accredited agency. All adopters (retroactively as well) will be subject to checks by the Russian authorities in their home after the adoptions. The article didn't say who was to pay for it. Something tells me it will be the American adopters...

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