Plans for our children

Russia is ready for dialogue with the United States under the law on the prohibition of adoption by the Americans of Russian children. This was stated by the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Interfax reports . She did not even exclude his cancellation.

"If the United States give guarantees that the health of our children, the life, rights of our children will be guaranteed in the United States of America, if they understand that cooperation with diplomatic representatives, representatives of Russia authorities to control how our children live, there will be information, then everything can be returned" to their own circles. "This is not an end in itself," Matvienko said.

At the same time, the Speaker of the SF believes that the decision of the ECHR under the "anti -Sirot" law is distant to law. "This decision is far from law, including international law, because the United States of America is not part of the European Convention, they signed the UN Convention on the protection of children, but it was never ratified," Matvienko said.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova called the decision of the ECHR "balanced". “With the participation of a judge from Russia in the ECHR Dmitry Dedov, a very balanced decision of the ECHR in the case of the“ Law of Dima Yakovlev, ”she wrote following a meeting with the chairman of the ECHR Gvido Raymondi.

On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights recognized the ban on the adoption of Russian children by US citizens. The claims were filed on behalf of 45 US citizens and 27 Russian children. In accordance with the verdict of the court, Russia should pay a total of 75 thousand euros as a coating of moral damage. In addition, the Russian authorities also must pay legal costs in the amount of 13.6 thousand euros.

The claims noted that all applicants began to draw up the necessary documents for adoption from 2010 to 2012. Most American families have received confirmation that they are suitable for adoption and that children cannot be transferred to Russian families. The applicants spent several days in orphanages and met with children. Children, as noted in the materials of the ECHR, managed to get attached to foster families. In addition, in one case, it was about the adoption of a child, whose brother had already lived in the same foster family.

Due to the "law of Dima Yakovlev," the process of adoption was interrupted, and attempts by US citizens to achieve results in Russian courts were not successful.

The claims stated that the measures of the Russian authorities violate Article 3 (no one should be tortured or inhuman or humiliating dignity or punishment), 8 (the right to respect private and family life) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms. As a result, the court recognized only a violation of articles 14 and 8.

Russia intends to appeal the decision of the ECHR, said the deputy head of the Ministry of Justice Georgy Matyushkin. “We will carefully study this decision and, of course, will appeal it in the Great Ward,” he said.

The Law of Dima Yakovlev entered into force on January 1, 2013. The document, which received an unofficial name in honor of the adopted child who died in the United States in 2008, was adopted in response to the Magnitsky Act. On December 20, 2012, President Vladimir Putin said that the introduction of the ban is an “emotional but adequate answer” to the “Magnitsky Law”. “According to sociological surveys, the vast majority of citizens are negatively related to the fact that foreigners adopt our children,” Putin said. “We need to do this ourselves, stimulate the transfer of orphans to families.”