Only Italy will remain. The State Duma will ban foreign adoption. Adoption in Italy and France Prohibition of foreign adoption in Italy

Russian President Putin approved an adoption agreement only with Italy because in our country only married couples can adopt children, but not non-marital couples, single people or same-sex unions, Italian media reported.

“A similarity of views that should not please us,” Chiara Saraceno’s commentary on the decision of the Russian president on the issue of adopting Russian orphans abroad was published in the newspaper La Repubblica.

“In recent years, international adoption has increasingly become part of interstate relations and agreements,” writes the author of the article. “Putin’s decision to approve an adoption agreement only with Italy, because in our country only married couples can take adopted children, but not couples out of wedlock, single people or same-sex couples, demonstrates, first and foremost, that the legal systems of the two countries support a single, strict definition of family and the conditions under which one can become legal adoptive parents."

“I don’t think we should rejoice at such a similarity of opinions with a country in which, to put it mildly, freely interprets the concept of civil rights and freedoms, including the rights of children left without parents,” the author continues, emphasizing that Russian orphans “very often have to live in overcrowded and poor orphanages."

The newspaper Corriere della Sera publishes an article by correspondent Fabrizio Dragosei "Putin's decision: Adoption of children only for Italy, a country where there is no same-sex marriage."

“Despite the fact that in Russia the problem of orphans is quite dramatic, it will continue to practice a ban on adoptions for almost all Western countries - with the exception of Italy. Our country,” writes the author of the article, “is the only state that has a valid agreement with Russia in this area ". According to Russian authorities, Italy deserves this by not allowing same-sex marriages and the adoption of children by same-sex couples. Adoption in the United States, the country that has previously accepted the largest number of Russian children, was blocked as a result of a political dispute and as the issue of same-sex marriage developed, Dragosei recalls. With France, the issue of adoption was closed in April, after the French parliament lifted the ban on gay weddings and adoption of children.

This spring, Putin announced that bilateral agreements with some countries should be renegotiated. Then the Duma introduced a ban on the adoption of children in countries that recognize same-sex marriage. The Church has said its word: “Russian children must remain in Russia.” The author of the article comments: “According to Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Interaction between Church and Society of the Moscow Patriarchate, we are talking about the right and wrong faith: a child who finds himself in a non-Orthodox family, even a Christian one, “moves away from the path that leads him into the kingdom of the Lord." In other words, the one who leaves Orthodoxy will not end up in heaven."

Anna Zafesova's article "Putin: Russian children only for Italians", published in the newspaper La Stampa, also discusses the topic of adoption of Russian orphans. "Pavel Astakhov, the Kremlin's commissioner for children's rights, said yesterday that only Italian citizens may have the right, in accordance with Russian law, to accept Russian children into their families: "Italy does not recognize same-sex marriage and is the only country with which we have bilateral agreement on adoption and which implements this agreement."

“Italians are good people, and what, in the opinion of many, is a sign of backwardness, in the opinion of the Russians, is a virtue. Russian orphans have to pay for Russia’s conservative turn,” writes Zafesova. “In 2012, 2.6 thousand Russian children, of which 762 ended up in Italian families. In second place were Americans (646 children), and they would have adopted more if not for the so-called “Dima Yakovlev Law” - a boy who died in the USA. This law became a pretext for a ban on the adoption of children overseas, where, according to Astakhov, “pedophilia, violence, abuse, like in no other country” flourish. In fact, the journalist reminds, the ban on the adoption of Russian children by American families was a response to the Magnitsky Act " - the introduction by the US Congress of sanctions against Russian officials who were considered guilty of the death in prison of lawyer and anti-corruption activist Sergei Magnitsky."

“Most likely, the new tightening of the rules for international adoption is due to the fact that 23 American families appealed to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights demanding information about the children they were supposed to adopt. The Russian side refused to provide such information, stating that all children were accepted to Russian families. But local media claim the opposite: these were seriously ill children, many of whom could not be treated in Russia, and one of them, who suffered from severe heart disease, died. Others are still waiting for adoption - probably in vain, - it says article: “As a rule, Russians do not adopt sick children and children with developmental delays, and they almost never adopt children older than 4-5 years old. Now, for such children, Italians remain the only hope.”

At the moment, Italy is the only country whose citizens can adopt Russian children. This is due to the fact that same-sex marriage is prohibited in Italy. According to Sky TG24, the ban on the adoption of children from Russia by foreigners is part of Putin’s campaign against homosexuality.

In state orphanages, more than 120 thousand children are waiting to be placed with a loving European family. But from today this can only be done by traditional families, with mom and dad, and exclusively from Italy.

These are the new rules for adopting children from Russia. This was announced by the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Pavel Astakhov. This decision became part of an extremely harsh campaign against homosexuality, which Vladimir Putin recently launched. In Italy, same-sex marriage is prohibited, so the Russian side considers this country the most suitable for Russian children.

Of course, this is good news for Italian couples who are waiting for permission to adopt little Russians. Until this point, Italians adopted an average of about 700 Russian children per year. The decision could now open up more adoption opportunities.

Although such disappearance of competitors from other countries hides very alarming prejudices. It is known that President Putin wants all foreign countries to prevent Russian children from ending up in same-sex families, where chaos, immorality and perversion reign.

Previously, the ban applied to US citizens, despite the fact that they adopted about a thousand children annually. From today it also extends to countries such as the UK, Spain and France.

Fears remain that they, the 120 thousand children who expect to be surrounded by love in the future, will have to pay for this.

Ketty Riga, Sky TG24.

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The year 2012 was marked by violent unrest in the ranks of the stratum that calls itself the “creative class.” Following the “fight for fair elections” and the support of the scandalous group Pussy Riot, at the end of the past year, the country was overwhelmed by a new wave of protests from the angry “creative elite”. The reason was the adoption by the Russian State Duma of the “Dima Yakovlev Law” as a response to the “Magnitsky Law” adopted in the United States.

“Cannibalistic law”, “anti-orphan law”, “law of scoundrels”, “King Herod”, “evil persecutor” (about President Putin), “child killers”, “monsters”, “orcs”, “those who voluntarily renounced the title of civilized people” , (about State Duma deputies) - these are just a few of the epithets that liberal journalists and the blogosphere awarded the Russian president and Duma deputies from all four factions.

Novaya Gazeta and other online media are organizing regular campaigns to collect signatures from indignant writers, pop stars and Internet users - the last time such mass hysteria took place was only in the Pussy Riot case. The already notorious US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, made a special statement. A petition has been posted on the White House website calling for deputies who supported the “Dima Yakovlev Law” to be included in the “Magnitsky lists.” To date, 13 thousand people have signed this petition. If by January 20 the number of signatories of the petition reaches 25 thousand, it will be accepted for consideration by the US Presidential Administration. President Putin is under intense pressure to veto the legislation he spoke in support of at his press conference.

The first signs of a split in the ruling elite have emerged. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, as well as Mikhail Abyzov, the man who coordinates the activities of a rather strange structure called “open government,” expressed their disagreement with the law adopted by the Duma. Even patriotically minded people, such as television journalist Mikhail Leontyev and historian Alexander Dyukov, expressed their disagreement with the adopted law.

The schism also affected the ranks of the church. The heads of two synodal departments expressed full support for the adopted law: the chairman of the Department for Interaction between Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, and the chairman of the Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Institutions, Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov. On the other hand, the head of another synodal department for church charity and social service, Bishop Panteleimon of Smolensk and Vyazemsky, unexpectedly criticized the law.

What is the essence of the problem, which once again led the notorious “creative class” to revolt and became a reason for disagreement in church circles?

The fact is that Russia, like all countries of the former Soviet Union, has become a base for the mass export of children for the purpose, at best, of their subsequent adoption, and in the worst case, use in the field of child prostitution or transplantation. The most egregious case occurred with a certain Nadezhda Fratti-Shchelgacheva, who fraudulently, allegedly for adoption, took 1,260 Russian children to Italy. Of these children, only five were adopted. Russian investigators found only five (!) children adopted.

According to representatives of the Italian authorities, these children could well have become victims of black transplantation. According to the then Italian Minister of the Interior Roberto Maroni, from 1974 to 2008. In Italy, 9,802 minors disappeared without a trace, 8,080 of whom were foreigners. Every week in Italy, according to Maroni, eight young children disappear. As the newspaper La Stampa wrote, from the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea, where reception centers for illegal immigrants are located, more than 400 of 1,320 children disappeared in 2009. Fratti-Shchelgacheva herself mysteriously managed to escape punishment and leave Russian territory without hindrance.

Russia has become one of the main suppliers of children to the United States and European countries - it shared these “prizes” with Ethiopia and Guatemala. According to the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov, during the 90s, up to 30 thousand children were taken out of Russia. In addition to the official ones, there were also “gray” schemes for the removal of children - rest, treatment, study, acquaintance, etc. Today, the market for foreign adoption of children from Russia is about 300 thousand dollars a year. There are about 80 intermediary firms operating in Russia for the adoption of Russian children by foreigners.

The average adoption cost is up to $60,000 per child. Today, there are about 13 thousand Russian residents on the waiting list to adopt children, but they do not pay for adoption and therefore are not interested in the “business of children.” Foreign adoption is several times higher than Russian adoption in the Jewish Autonomous Okrug by three times, in the Irkutsk region by 2.5 times, in the Khabarovsk Territory by 1.5 times, in St. Petersburg by 1.3 times. At the same time, in these same regions there was still a queue of Russians wishing to adopt an orphan child: in St. Petersburg there were 360 people in line to adopt children, in Khabarovsk - 185 people.

There is a false myth that Russians are only interested in healthy children, while Americans are willing to adopt sick children. Of the 20 thousand orphans taken from Russia in 2009-2011, 70% were healthy children aged from several months to 6 years. In 2011, Russians adopted 188 disabled children, Americans only 44. At the same time, the interest of Americans in children specifically from Russia seems completely incomprehensible. According to the American website The New Civil Rights Movement, there are 2.9 million unadopted orphans and 1.6 million homeless children living in the United States today.

The topic of banning the adoption of Russian children by Americans did not arise yesterday; it has long been expressed by various representatives of Russian society. For several years now, we have been faced with cases of ill-treatment and even murder of Russian children in the United States. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich, American justice is extremely strict when violence affects American children. For example, a court in the Texas city of Dallas sentenced local resident Elizabeth Escalona to 99 years in prison for bullying her own daughter, as a result of which the girl ended up in intensive care. At the same time, the same courts show “incomprehensible and unacceptable leniency” towards adoptive parents. Thus, in Pennsylvania, the Craver couple, guilty of the long-term torture and death of seven-year-old Ivan Skorobogatov, on whose body 80 wounds were found, were sentenced to only 16 months in prison. At the same time, due to the fact that they served this term during the investigation, the Cravers were released right in the courtroom.

Brian Dykstra

At the same time, American Brian Dykstra, who beat one-and-a-half-year-old Ilya Kargyntsev to death, did not spend a single day in prison. The adoptive father called 911 and reported that his adopted son was having a “minor seizure.” Police and doctors found the child unconscious on the living room floor with an "apparent head injury." At the hospital, he was found to have extensive swelling of the brain, severe intracranial bleeding, swelling of the retinas of both eyes, as well as severe bruising on the torso and legs. According to doctors, the child's injuries were sustained earlier that day and were inconsistent with Dykstra's explanations. The boy underwent brain surgery, but he died without regaining consciousness. The investigation into this case lasted several years, but the main suspect was released almost immediately. Having paid a bail of 15 thousand dollars, he did not spend a day in isolation. On November 3, 2011, Dykstra was acquitted in Johnson County, Iowa. Throughout the trial, American authorities said not a word to either Russian diplomats or the Ministry of Education, which oversees the adoption.

In February 2009, a three-year-old Russian girl, Daria McNulty, was taken to a Pennsylvania hospital and diagnosed with numerous second-degree burns, as well as signs of beatings on her head, neck, limbs and back. The court found that she was beaten by her adoptive mother Teresa for a long time. The sadist received about two years in prison, but was released to this same freedom after 8 months.

In March 2010, Michael Grismore was arrested in the United States for systematically raping his adopted daughter Ksenia Antonova. The American citizen Martha-Annette Blenford, who adopted her from Kemerovo, decided to abandon the girl after some time. After this, Ksenia was taken into custody by the family of her sister Martha Annette, where the girl was subjected to sexual violence by her new adoptive father. The court still cannot make an unambiguous verdict against Grismore, since he states that sexual intimacy with Ksenia occurred “by mutual consent” and when the girl was already 16 years old (according to the laws of the state of Georgia, this is the age of puberty). Grizmor even provided the court with a certificate indicating that Ksenia at the time of sexual contact with Grizmor was not 15 (as according to Russian documents), but 16 years old.

In April 2010, seven-year-old Artem Savelyev was found on a plane flying from the United States to Russia with a note from his adoptive grandmother Nancy Hansen. According to Mrs. Hansen, her daughter Tori “cannot become Artem’s real mother, since the child adopted in Russia allegedly ‘suffers from alcohol syndrome’.” No special measures were taken by American justice against Nancy Hansen and her daughter Tory.

In May 2010, American adoptive parents named Leshchinsky decided to set up a real forced labor camp for three adopted girls from Russia. Children were woken up early in the morning and forced to run 10 kilometers, and then sent to other “developmental activities”, the main of which were standing with their fists and sitting on nails. For every disobedience, the girls were severely beaten. According to the father of the family, Steve Leszczynski, this is simply “an education system for children from Russia” who “simply cannot be brought up any other way.” As a result, the spouses Steve and Edelvina Leszczynski were sentenced by an American court to... 4 years of suspended imprisonment and a ban on adopting a child under 15 years of age.

In 2011, the couple Shed and Christy Traylor were arrested in Florida on suspicion of abuse of Maxim Babaev, whom they adopted in Russia. The court subsequently dismissed the case. In September of this year, Russian diplomats demanded comprehensive explanations from the US authorities and the speedy establishment of Babaev’s whereabouts in order to organize a consular meeting with him, however, on the request for consular access to the child, Florida District Judge J. Mahl issued a negative decision. The boy was handed over to temporary guardians, but Russian diplomats have been unable to find out his location and state of health. All requests for information about his location, the circumstances of what happened and Maxim’s further fate were refused.

That same year, a 40-year-old manager from Massachusetts, who adopted three-year-old Denis in the Voronezh region, simply gave him to her friends. According to the failed mother, she “did not have warm feelings for the child.” The agency Wide Horizons For Children, responsible for the adoption of the child, not only violated the deadlines for submitting mandatory reports on Denis’s living conditions in the United States, but also sent false information to Russia. The report sent by the agency, in particular, said that Denis was doing well, he was getting used to his new life, and had become attached to all family members. However, a month later, the agency reported that the American adoptive mother abandoned Denis. It later became known that the agency had placed the boy under temporary guardianship with a new foster family.

In 2012, in Virginia, seven-year-old Daniil Krichun, adopted by them in Tula, ran away from his adoptive parents, spouses Matthew and Amy Sweeney, who said that he was often beaten in his adoptive family. Upon examination, traces of severe beatings were indeed found on his body. Prosecutors charged the Sweeney couple with child abuse and released them pending trial on $20,000 bail.

But there are stranger things. Specifically, this is the Ranch For Kids shelter in Montana. According to various sources, from 10 to 32 orphans from Russia live there, abandoned by their adoptive parents, completely removed from the outside world. Some children are placed at the ranch immediately after adoption. Separate reports list the child's status as "happily living in a foster home" while at the ranch. Some children return to this ranch several times. Some are transferred to psychiatric hospitals or juvenile detention centers.

In 2010, the shelter was denied a license due to the fact that the premises for children are not properly equipped, that there is no clear fire extinguishing and fire evacuation plan, that the employees of the institution do not have licenses to carry out their activities, and the children themselves are actually deprived of any rights . However, most of the children on the ranch suffer from serious physiological and psychological disorders, but do not receive qualified medical care. Moreover, the owner of the institution, Joyce Sterkel, refused to provide the authorities with any detailed information about her students. Montana authorities have been seeking to close the ranch since 2010.

A few months ago, the Association of Parental Committees and Communities (ARKS) began developing a bill to limit the international adoption of children in the working group of deputy Evgeniy Fedorov, and this work was successfully completed. This bill should have been adopted regardless of the adoption or non-adoption of the Magnitsky Law. Thank God that the anti-Russian act adopted by the American Congress and signed by the US President helped pass a law prohibiting international adoption.

Yes, in addition to the above there were good examples of adoption. And we should be grateful to those ascetic families who were able to bring a fairy tale to life for thousands of disabled children. And we should be ashamed that in Russia there is no (or has simply disappeared) the same attitude towards suffering children as in most traditional American Protestant families.

But let's imagine that the American adoption of all Russian children is successful. That there were not 19 murders, numerous rapes and beatings of adopted children from Russia, giving them as gifts to other people or sending them on planes back to Moscow. Let's assume that even an article in the Associated Press about a strange ranch in Montana is a journalistic myth ordered by Kremlin lobbyists. Let's imagine for a moment that all Russian children adopted by Americans are happy in their new families. In this case, the adoption of Russian children - healthy and disabled - by foreign adoptive parents would be justified.

In my deep conviction, no. Firstly, because Russia is not a banana republic. Russia cannot be put on a par with Ethiopia and Guatemala. If only for this reason, any foreign adoption of Russian children by foreigners (with the exception of Russians from the former USSR), for any “humanitarian” reasons, should be prohibited. Simply because no self-respecting country would allow this, just as the United States does not allow other countries to adopt 3 million of its own orphans. A poor mother who sells her child to a rich family commits a crime, no matter how kind the adoptive family may be. As journalist Denis Tukmakov wrote in his blog, if we choose “life with strangers” for Russian children, then we, as a nation, end there.

And secondly, there is the question of faith. And this question, in my deep conviction, is the main one. Children born in Russia, many of whom have already been baptized in Orthodox churches, will find themselves in the bosom of a foreign, heretical religious tradition. It is impossible to give children into the hands of practicing heretics (no matter how good people they are) even to save their lives. By saving their lives, we close the path to salvation for their souls, which does not exist outside the Church of Christ. For “what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).

Both the state and the Church should learn lessons from this whole story. It is necessary to eliminate all bureaucratic delays for Russian adoptive parents in the adoption of children. It is necessary to ensure that disabled children in Russia live as well as in America. Adoption of orphans should become the norm for Orthodox families. It is necessary to develop and encourage a system of church and monastic shelters, such as the orphanage in the St. Alexis Hermitage, created by Hieromonk Peter (Vasilenko). Every public building and underground passage must be equipped with ramps for the disabled. But the issue of foreign adoption must be closed once and for all.

Countries with which Russia does not have an agreement on the adoption of orphans will no longer receive a positive decision on the adoption of a Russian child. Only two countries have such an agreement - Italy and France. This was stated by the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, Pavel Astakhov.

The adoption of Russian children is actually suspended for citizens of countries with which the Russian Federation does not have an adoption agreement. Currently, only two countries have such an agreement - Italy and France. This was stated by the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, Pavel Astakhov, commenting on the explanations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the procedure for applying the provisions of Federal Law No. 167 “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issues of placement of orphans and children left without parental care.”

We are talking about the explanations of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated August 29 of this year on how courts apply the provisions of Federal Law No. 167 “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation on issues of placement of orphans and children left without parental care,” which prohibits adoption of children in countries where same-sex marriage is allowed.

If you carefully read these explanations, you will see the following thing: in fact, today international adoption in the courts of the Russian Federation will practically be stopped. The point is that in order for international adoption to continue, an agreement is required with the state with which it was carried out - we have about 20 such states. We have it today with Italy and France. That is, only two countries.

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On June 18, State Duma deputies voted to ban the adoption of Russian children by foreign same-sex couples. In addition, orphans will not be given to single citizens of countries that allow gay marriage. In addition to the ban on the adoption of children by homosexuals, the size of the one-time benefit for adopted disabled children, children over seven years old, as well as blood brothers and sisters has been increased from 13 thousand to 100 thousand rubles. The current requirement of a 16-year age difference between the unmarried adoptive parent and the child he is adopting remains in effect. Previously, it was planned to exclude this provision, but deputies believed that this would benefit pedophiles.

Deputy Elena Afanasyeva spoke about the reasons for the ban on the adoption of Russian children by foreign same-sex couples.

Most often, citizens of Italy and the United States applied to Russian courts with requests for international adoption of children in 2012, according to statistics provided in the review of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of the practice of considering cases of child adoption by regional and equal courts.

In 2012, Russian children were most often adopted by Italian citizens (27% of cases approved), US citizens (24%) and Spanish citizens (20%). In addition, according to consolidated data, Russian children were also adopted by citizens of France (10%), Germany (5%), Israel (4%), Canada (2%), Sweden (1.4%), Ireland and Great Britain (1 each). %), Finland and Malta (0.6% each). At the same time, a small place in the overall statistics (up to ten cases) is occupied by adoptive parents from Argentina, New Zealand, Switzerland, Belgium, Ukraine and Austria.

About the boy Vita from the Kemerovo region, who was destined to become the last child in Kuzbass adopted by foreigners. A family from Italy actually saved an orphan's life. The boy spoke, went to school, had friends and hobbies, although in the orphanage he was considered hopeless.

A family of Italian bakers adopted Vitya in August 2013. A month later, the Kemerovo region, by decision of local deputies, became the first region in Russia to completely ban foreign adoption.

Malgin accidentally met Viti's adoptive family in Italy in February 2014. At that time, the five-year-old boy did not yet speak either Russian or Italian. Having visited Vitina’s family on Christmas (December 25, 2015), the blogger reported on the dramatic changes that had occurred with the boy. A story about Viti's life in Italy was published in a blog review.

In Russia, Vitya was considered hopelessly ill

As Malgin writes, in order to adopt a boy from the Kemerovo region, his new family had to fly to Siberia three times and live there. Vitya became the last child in the region who could be adopted by foreigners. “About 70 children, who had already met their future foreign parents, remained in orphanages and orphanages,” the blogger notes.

At the same time, the Kemerovo guardianship authorities chose Vitya for the Italians, because they were sure that he was mentally retarded and hopelessly ill. “At four and a half years old, he did not speak, did not react to speech, he could not walk in a straight line, he fell on his side. His eyes could not focus on the interlocutor. Therefore, at four years old, he was kept in a playpen, and was generously injected with tranquilizers. When the effect of the injection ended , he screamed and immediately received a new dose,” says Malgin.

The Italians were shocked when they saw the child for the first time. “But they were told: either this, or you fly back and start the process all over again (the painful process of collecting certificates lasted a year and cost tens of thousands of euros),” explains the blogger.

As a result, the foreigners decided that they would accept the child into their family. “Somewhere deep down there was a thought: what if we can cure him?” - writes Malgin.

While the issue of adoption was being resolved in court, the court secretary asked the Italians: “Tell me, are you taking him away for organs?” Foreigners reacted to the question with bewilderment. “The court girl read in the newspaper that all Italians (precisely Italians) adopt children in Russia in order to disassemble them into organs in their basement in Italy and then sell these organs individually,” explains the blogger. As soon as the court approved the adoption, the adoptive family, together with Vitya, flew to Moscow, and from there to Italy.

Italian doctors found no pathologies in Vitya

As Malgin notes, after the orphanage, Vitya, who was four and a half years old, “couldn’t speak, he only mooed, sometimes screamed like peacocks in a zoo, he could barely walk, his gaze was turned inward, they fed him from a spoon, and drank from He didn’t know how to cup—everything flowed past his mouth.” But the child’s parents “did not despair and gradually, step by step, taught him human skills.”

In addition, after waiting in line for several months, the adoptive mother went with Vitya to an expensive clinic in Livorno, where “there is a luminary - a professor specializing in mentally retarded children.” “Vitya was checked from head to toe using the most modern technology, they took all the tests, he passed various psychological tests. Mom returned inspired: there were no pathologies in the brain,” notes Malgin.

It is worth noting that Viti’s family makes their living by baking bread. “At five in the morning you need to light the oven and start baking bread. Previously, they did this one by one, but now everything fell on the shoulders of the father. We witnessed this difficult period in their lives, they, of course, are heroes,” the blogger emphasizes.

After a month in the clinic, Vitya’s adoptive mother strictly followed all the recommendations of the specialists, and the necessary skills were quickly restored. “Except for one thing: the child had complete atrophy of the speech apparatus. I don’t know if it was congenital or simply because no one was doing it there. And so, having received from the doctor a whole book describing exercises for the tongue and mouth, she began daily grueling work.” , - says Malgin.

The parents did everything to ensure that the child developed comprehensively: they hired Vitya a swimming coach, taught him to ride a bicycle, although at first the boy did not even understand that he needed to press the pedals. In addition, it turned out that Vitya loves to put together puzzles and copes with even the most complex of them in a few hours. “When we visited them in the spring, they had boxes of puzzles in the corner: the stack was from floor to ceiling, I swear. He dealt with them all!” - Malgin admires.

Vitya spoke

As the blogger notes, one day he once again visited Vitya’s family and heard that the boy was talking and eating with a spoon, knife and fork, despite the fact that immediately after his adoption he used to drink from the toilet, collecting water in his palms. “This yesterday’s plant has acquired a character. We also had to deal with this,” notes Malgin.

Vitya went to kindergarten, and then, in September of this year, to school. “By this time, he was already speaking decently. The only problems were with diction; not all sounds came out equally well,” says the author of the material.

According to Malgin, Vitya really likes school. The boy was given a separate teacher at the expense of the state, who sits next to him at his desk during all lessons while the class teacher stands at the blackboard. Vitya has made friends in his class, and he knows everyone by name.

During the blogger's last visit to Viti's foster family, the boy was talking. “Slowly, choosing his words, but he spoke to us on various topics. He asked questions, answered questions about the school and about his news. It was some kind of miracle,” writes Malgin.

The blogger also talked about the amazing features that he and Vitya’s parents noticed. Firstly, the boy reacted with joy to Russian speech when he heard it in Italy after a long break, although in such cases children can become hysterical, since words in their native language remind them of a difficult period in life.

In addition, it turned out that Vitya remembers some Russian words, although while living in Russia the child did not speak at all. “I remembered a boy - the character of Fazil Iskander - who was silent until he was seven years old, considered dumb, and then one day came up to the table where a family with numerous relatives was sitting, and clearly told them: “It’s time to sow winter crops!” writes Malgin.

The blogger recalled that Vitya’s own mother was an alcoholic who died when the child was four months old, in a village somewhere on the border with Mongolia.

Adoption bans imposed by Russian authorities

During a large press conference on December 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about easing the ban on the adoption of disabled children in the Russian Federation. In response, the head of state stated that, according to statistics, the percentage of foreigners who want to adopt disabled children in the Russian Federation is much less than those who apply for healthy children. Therefore, Putin said, there is no need to rush to revise the decisions that were made on this matter.

It is worth noting that Kemerovo deputies banned foreign adoption with the wording “the adoption of minor citizens is an internal matter of Russia, an internal matter of Kuzbass.” Later, the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region proposed to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to completely ban the adoption of orphans by foreigners in Russia, arguing their initiative to protect children from “forced teaching of gayness.” The lower house of the Russian parliament rejected this initiative.

Since January 1, the “Dima Yakovlev law” has been in force in Russia, prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian orphans. In June 2013, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law prohibiting same-sex families from other countries from adopting children from Russia. A little later, the Federation Council approved a ban on the adoption of orphans from the Russian Federation by same-sex couples, as well as unmarried or unmarried foreigners from those states where such marriages are allowed. At the same time, these norms were included in the Family Code of the Russian Federation.

And in early February of this year, in development of the so-called anti-gay orphan law, the Russian government limited the adoption of Russian orphans to countries with permitted same-sex marriages. The new norm introduced by this resolution is that now not only openly gay foreigners - who do not hide their relationships with people of the same sex - will not be able to adopt children, but also those foreigners who, according to the Russian authorities, “may turn out to be gay” .

Only Italy will remain. The State Duma will ban foreign adoption. Adoption in Italy and France Prohibition of foreign adoption in Italy

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