"The Law of Dima Yakovlev" will be continued

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by citizens of those countries with which Russia did not sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of adoption, with the exception of the CIS countries. If the law is adopted, more than a thousand orphans will remain in orphanages annually in orphanages. This is almost twice as much as it was after the adoption of the "law of Dima Yakovlev" prohibiting American adoption.

With the adoption of amendments developed by deputies from the Communist Party and United Russia, Russian children will adopt the citizens of most countries, since now an agreement on the adoption, which is mentioned in the bill, is signed only with twelve countries. Moreover, with the United States it was canceled last year, at the time of the adoption of the so -called "law of Dima Yakovlev." It does not work with another country, France, since in June of this year the State Duma banned adoption in countries where same -sex marriages are legalized. It turns out that citizens of ten countries will be able to adopt Russian children, most of which are almost never orphans from our country and have never adopted. So, the adoption agreements today are concluded with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Estonia, Belarus and Vietnam. But the only country with which Russia has an agreement on cooperation and where Russian children are adopted by hundreds is Italy. Its citizens adopted 815 children last year, this is almost a third of all adopted in Russia in 2012. If the bill is adopted, thousands of children can remain in orphanages whom neither citizens of the USA (717 children who have taken home in 2012), nor Canadian citizens (41 children), Spain (530 children), Germany (134 children), the UK (34 children), Sweden (43 children) or Israel (87 children) can remain.

One of the authors of the bill, United Russia, Evgeny Fedorov assures that most European countries simply do not want to allow the “Russian control system to the adoptive parents” and therefore do not sign an agreement with Russia. “For example, the agreement provides that consular workers have the right to access the family, and foreign states do not want this and believe that they themselves can dispose of the children they took from Russia. In Finland, for example, they believe that they can dispose of children who came to them temporarily, even on a tourist trip, and can do anything with them, up to the removal of children from the family, ”says Slon Fedorov. He is sure that the adoption of his bill will accelerate the signing of bilateral agreements on adoption with Russia.

The curator of the project “Close People” of the Foundation “Volunteers to help orphans” Alena Sinkevich, on the contrary, believes that the presence of an agreement is only an excuse. It’s just that Russian lawmakers want to negate all foreign adoption in principle. “The first agreement was concluded between Russia and Italy due to the fact that, according to the laws of Italy, adoption in Russia is not considered final and may not be approved by the Italian tribunal. And although there were no such precedents, this agreement was nevertheless concluded. In most countries, all proposed in these agreements was spelled out so. They did not insist on this and in Russia. Raising this issue now is rather an attempt to prove that the ban on American adoption was not a political step and an answer to the Magnitsky Law adopted in the USA, ”Slon said.

At the same time, neither the deputy Fedorov nor the co -author of the bill Communist Gennady Kulik could answer the question Slon, who will adopt more than two thousand Russian children who, as practice shows, will not be able to find adoptive parents in their homeland if their bill is adopted. Evgeny Fedorov left a direct response, saying that the law will have a transition period during which all foreigners who began paperwork for the adoption of Russian children will be able to adopt them in about a year. And Gennady Kulik generally asked Slon "not to draw any conclusions from this law, because so far, thank God, it is not."