Sad statistics: the scale of adoption of Russian children by foreigners is calculated - ForumDaily
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Sad statistics: calculated the scale of adoption of Russian children by foreigners

The number of cases when foreigners adopted Russian orphans and children left without parental care declined significantly from 2012 to 2018. Citizens of some countries, for example, Great Britain and Canada, have generally ceased to adopt children from Russia. He writes about it Currently, with reference to the statistics of the Ministry of Education.

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According to the Ministry of Education, if in 2012, foreigners adopted 2 604 Russian children, in 2018, only 289 children (of which 67% - 196 people - were taken by adoptive parents from Italy). Thus, foreign adoption in Russia has decreased by nine times.

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In 2012, the leaders in the number of adoptions of Russian children were the United States - 646 children left for American families over the year.

For six years:

  • the adoption of Russian children by Italian citizens was reduced from 762 people in 2012 to 196 in 2018,
  • Spanish citizens began to adopt children in 14 times less - from 502 to 35 people,
  • French citizens - less in 11: from 245 to 22,
  • German citizens - from 129 to 7,
  • Israeli citizens - from 86 to 15 people.

Citizens and nationals of Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Malta and Slovenia ceased to adopt Russian children. Meanwhile, in 2012, British nationals adopted 33 children, Canadians - 41, Ireland - 30, Finland - 18, Sweden - 39, Malta - 12, Slovenia - 21.

Since January 1, 2013, US citizens cannot adopt Russian children under the high-profile “Dima Yakovlev Law,” which was adopted at the end of 2012 against the backdrop of worsening relations between the Russian Federation and the United States. It is named after a two-year-old boy, Dmitry Yakovlev, adopted by American citizens, who died due to being left in the heat in a closed car.

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In reality, the law was the Kremlin’s response to the “Magnitsky Act” adopted in the United States. He introduced visa and economic sanctions against officials and law enforcement officers who were involved in the case of Hermitage Capital fund auditor Sergei Magnitsky, who died in jail, and other episodes of human rights violations in Russia.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov stated in 2017 that “the initiative (with the “Dima Yakovlev Law”) has fully justified itself.”

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