Tonight I received an email from J, another woman adopting from Russia. J and I have been talking fairly regularly over the last few months. Tonight J was writing to share a link to one of the sources validating everything from last week.
Russia will only allow adoptions to proceed with countries they have a bilateral agreement with. That is to say, with France and Italy.
No, Canada is not on the list. We do not even have a bilateral agreement in place.
For those that need sources: http://www.rfdeti.ru/news/7355-usynovlyat-rossiyskih-detey-mogut-grazhdane-tolko-dvuh-inostrannyh-gosudarstv
You can use this to translate: http://translate.google.ca/ - just put the source link in the box and it will give you a translated version.
A Russian government web page has listed the quote for the day as:
"Russia wants to convey to the world their desire for self-solving domestic problems. We are ready to take care of our children and help families."
I guess that says it all. Good for them. Not good for us.
It means that our adoption is halted. Stopped.
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I just sent you an email. So confused because in speaking to I at AH this isn't the case.
ReplyDeleteHi Fiona! I'll keep this brief since we'll be talking on the phone shortly.
DeleteIf you read the post after this one you'll see that there had not yet been any regulations passed to put this in effect, but that the Child Rights Ombudsman for the Ministry of Education (in Russia) is the one making the statements. As such, the agencies in Canada have had no formal changes put into effect so they can't halt their practice or share any informal information.
A friend is also a client at AH and has shared that things are on pause there until her clients go to court on mid-October - after which we should all have more info then.
However, the post I am about to put up shows that Sweden was the first country formally blocked this week for allowing Same Sex Marriage.
It's a very tenuous, stressful and sad time for everyone. It seems we are all just waiting for the axe to fall.