CNN - U.S. official: Russia still allowing adoptions by Americans

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U.S. official: Russia still allowing adoptions by Americans


From Charley Keyes, CNN


May 4, 2010 -- Updated 0056 GMT (0856 HKT)


Washington (CNN) -- A senior State Department official said Monday that Russian authorities continue to approve U.S. adoptions despite some public sentiment there to call a complete halt.
"There are several different moods, I think, in Russia. There is some popular opinion for ending all adoptions to the United States," the official said.

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"The latest uproar and the high-level meetings were prompted by a Tennessee woman who sent the young Russian boy her family had recently adopted back to Russia unaccompanied.

The senior State Department official said Russians understandably are upset that 18 Russian children have been killed by their adoptive parents since the early 1990s and 17 of those cases involved Americans."