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| Russia suspends adoptions to US | Russia suspends adoptions to US |
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| US adoptions of Russian children have been halted, days after a Russian boy was rejected by his adoptive mother in the American state of Tennessee. | US adoptions of Russian children have been halted, days after a Russian boy was rejected by his adoptive mother in the American state of Tennessee. |
| The Russian foreign ministry said the move would apply until a bilateral adoption agreement could be signed. | The Russian foreign ministry said the move would apply until a bilateral adoption agreement could be signed. |
| An international outcry erupted last week when the US mother sent her seven-year-old Russian boy unaccompanied on a plane to Moscow. | An international outcry erupted last week when the US mother sent her seven-year-old Russian boy unaccompanied on a plane to Moscow. |
| She sent a note with him saying the boy had psychological issues. | She sent a note with him saying the boy had psychological issues. |
| Torry Hansen said she no longer wanted to keep the boy as she felt she had been misled by his Russian orphanage. | |
| 'Recent tragedies' | |
| Russians are furious that no charges have been filed against the 33-year-old nurse. | |
| The US state department is arranging for a high-level delegation to visit Moscow next week to discuss the incident and the possibility of a bilateral adoption agreement. | |
| Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told a TV briefing: "Russia believes only such an agreementÂ… will ensure that recent tragedies in the United States will not be repeated." | |
| Moscow has urged Washington in the past to sign such a formal pact, but the US has said an international accord, the Hague Convention, would be enough once Russia had ratified it. | |
| Thousands of American would-be adoptive parents have been petitioning leaders of the Russian and US presidents to prevent the suspension. | |
| Russian lawmakers have previously urged the freezing of American adoptions after other alleged cases of Russian children being mistreated. | |
| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called the most recent incident "the last straw". | |
| More than 1,800 Russian children were adopted in the United States last year, according to Russia's health and education ministry. |