This is related to Pizzagate because the Dima Yakovlev Law which Putin signed into law on Dec. 28, 2012 (Feast of the Holy Innocents), banned Russian adoptions in the U.S. because of numerous incidents of abuse, murder and unexplained deaths of Russian adoptees in America, notably the death of 21-month old Dmitri Yakovlev who died from heat stroke after being locked in his car seat for hours while his stepfather was at work. The Russian govt. specifically banned The European Adoption Consultants agency from conducting Russian adoptions in 2008, and the EAC HQ in Strongsville, OH, was raided by the FBI on Feb.14, 2017, as part of a criminal probe into child trafficking and is currently being sued by the Ohio AG Mike DeWine for a variety of violations.

The Dima Yakovlev Law was passed unanimously by the Russian Federation Council. It was followed in June, 2013, by a law banning Russian adoptions to gay couples abroad. ](https://www.rt.com/politics/passes-ban-us-adoptions-834/)) It also banned single persons from adopting Russian children.

Putin signed an executive order along with the Dima Yakovlev Law which would improve Russia's domestic adoption system proposing using revenues from a luxury tax to ameliorate conditions in Russia's orphanages.

(In June, 2013, the Russian Duma also passed a law banning homosexual propaganda against minors, which passed 388 to 1. 86% of the Russian population supported the measure.)

It is interesting to note that the Russian adoption ban and the measures against gay adoption and gay propaganda to minors came a little over a year after then-SoS Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signed a high-profile bilateral Adoption Agreement in 2011.

The rationale behind the adoption ban of Russian children was summed up well by Pavel Astakhov, the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russia Federation:

"There is huge money and questionable people involved in the semi-legal schemes of exporting children," he tweeted.

The NY Times called Pavel Astakhov "The Man Behind U.S. Adoption Ban" in an article dated Feb. 23, 2013. Astakhov has pushed hard since then for the establishment of a database of Russian adoptees in the U.S. to monitor their welfare.

All of this Russian legislation in the same 6-month period suggests rather strongly that this was a comprehensive effort by the Russian govt. to protect their children and was not just a retaliatory act against the U.S. passing the Magnitsky Act and banning Russian businessmen and officials from the U.S.

The Russian adoption ban was met with widespread disapproval and outrage by progressives as Wikipedia notes: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN, Catholic News Service, and the MSM in the U.S. called "Herod's Law", "cannibalistic" and "cruel".

A Daily Beast article from last year indignantly declared that

"disadvantaged Russian children are being dangled as bait, with a wink-and-a-nudge promise to have the Russian law (Magnitsky Act) rescinded if the American law is taken off the books.

As one U.S. official put it privately, the current messaging is being “led by ogres out of central casting. They’re saying, ‘You repeal Magnitsky and we’ll let go of the kids.’ And it’s not even American kids. It’s their own. And they’re kids with Down syndrome and spina bifida.”

With this background in mind, let's take a closer look at Natalia Veselnitskaya's foundation that she established to overturn the Russian adoption ban. Jack Posobiec claims Natalia is a Soros-paid shill, but I'm not so sure. The same Daily Beast article above, dated May 18, 2016, which I just came across, entitled "Putin's Dirty Game in the U.S. Congress", notes that the website was under construction except for the front page---something I also noticed while browsing through yesterday which means it hasn't been updated in over a year. I had also noted in a post yesterday that the name seemed to be parroting the official name of the Magnitsky Act:

In February, an organization calling itself the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, an obvious echo of the full name of the Magnitsky Act, was registered in Delaware. Little trace of the activities or provenance of this organization exist online, apart from its “under construction” website, whose homepage is written in ungrammatical English.

HRAGIF claims to be “working on analyzing legal and legislative options to help overturn this adoption ban,” according to its site. “We would like to present our findings to the members of U.S. Congress, Administration and U.S. public and is planning to brief them on possible ways of resolution of this stalemate on adoptions.”

The article goes on to discuss Natalia's connection with the anti-Magnitsky Act documentary by Russian filmaker Andrei Nekrasov which was shown at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. for lawmakers last year, though it has been kept from the general public largely by the efforts of William Browder.

The contention of the Daily Beast article is that Natalia's scheme to overturn the Russian adoption ban is not to be trusted because she is a pro-Putin ally and a fierce opponent of William Browder and the Magnitsky Act.

This goes hand in hand with a Daily Caller article yesterday about William Browder's claim that the Russian-American lobbyist, Ritan Akhmetshin, whom Natalia hired to register her organization, HRGAIF, worked with Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the infamous "Golden Showers" Trump Dossier, to investigate him in an influence campaign against the Magnitsky Act at around the same time:

The Daily Caller article concludes with this astonishing statement:

Browder is not linked to or identified in the dossier, but he has said that Fusion GPS’s involvement on the anti-Magnitsky effort raises questions about the veracity of the anti-Trump research.

THIS is startling: THIS IS HUGE!!! THIS SUGGESTS THAT THE GOLDEN SHOWERS DOSSIER WAS A BIG HOAX CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED AS PART OF A PRO-TRUMP AGENDA.

ALSO, BECAUSE NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA'S LOBBYIST FRIEND RINAT AKHMETSHIN ALSO USED FUSION GPS TO INVESTIGATE BROWDER, THIS COULD VERY WELL BE THE SMOKING GUN PROVING THAT NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA AND RINAT AKHMETSHIN MAY ALSO BE PART OF A PRO-PUTIN SCHEME and used her organization knowing that restarting Russian adoptions was highly popular with the liberal elite (Why, one might ask?) as a way to bring lawmakers on board to begin influencing them against the Magnitsky Act.

Could her organization also have been used as a front to attract possible pedophiles and traffickers who wanted to restart the "popular" Russian adoption program in the U.S.? That remains to be determined, but it's clear that Natalia's non-profit was not what it proclaimed itself to be, and the liberal elite themselves were highly suspicious of it. It was a big flop and only one former Congressman was briefly taken in by it: Ron Dellums---- which makes it highly unlikely Natalia was working for Soros.