On Saturday (November 23), Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a new bill banning the adoption of Russia’s children by citizens of other countries that are pro-LGBTQIA+ and where ...

Russia last year banned gender-transition medical procedures and its Supreme Court declared the LGBTQ+ "movement" to be extremist. In 2022, ...

Russia had already banned adoptions from the United States in 2012 in retaliation to a U.S. law imposing asset freezes and visa bans on Russians accused by Washington of human rights abuses ...