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senpaithatignoresyou ago

https://www.rt.com/politics/russian-foreign-adoptions-ban-316/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/opinion/jean-russia-adoption/index.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shai-baitel/russias-adoption-ban-two_b_6399064.html

Things are starting to make terrible sense now. The russian ban on US adoptions a few years ago seemed very odd, and was spun a lot of crazy ways. Yet no one bothered to mention why the russians would do such a drastic move. No one in the main stream bothered to ask questions. The most obvious answer would be a crack down on human trafficking, as organized crime will make money off of anything.

salinaslayer ago

That explains why they'd want to go to war with the Russians

Wolftrail7272 ago

Dude. It does.

Stukov ago

I'm going to have to disagree, I remember this news and while it makes deductive (or is it inductive?) sense to say that's why the Russians did it, it was a little different than that. First, Russians have human trafficking as well (not saying this to distract), even if it isn't as nefarious as baby fucking and eating, it still isn't great. Two, the reason they did this was that there were lots of people in the US, especially wealthy people who were wanting to adopt white children. If you are familiar with what happened with Native American children in the US, this can have a huge impact on culture. I just don't think it is the case that what you say is why the Russians stopped adoption, I think its just to keep the ethnic Russians in Russia.