Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sent would-be parents
into a paroxysm of panic when he signaled he might approve a ban on
American adoptions of Russian children. During a press conference,
Putin said the ban was an appropriate response to new U.S.
legislation targeting Russian human-right violators. The Magnitsky
List, signed into law by President Barack Obama on last Friday, is
named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer arrested and
imprisoned while trying to expose
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