The issue on the [Russian Duma] ban on adoptions of [Russian]
orphans by Americans is important. I am very sorry for the
children.
It is a significant law. Not only it gives another proof
of stupidity and the resulting cruelty, but also demonstrates
the Bolshevik and Stalinist nature of the Russian political
system. A kind of capitalism with a Stalin's face.
Bolsheviks and Stalinists always take a "revenge"
on their enemy in such a way that it brings a huge and often
irreparable damage to the citizens of Russia, in this case
to desolate and helpless children, whom they regard as their
property, as serfs, as inanimate objects...
The sanctions against Russian orphans imposed by the State
Duma are a disgusting, cruel, unfair and cowardly decision
adopted in a unanimous pseudo-patriotic frenzy.
And the American "Magnitsky Law" has very little
to do with this. This document maybe classified as "moral
guidance", as it is virtually only a declaration and
does not introduce something really new into practice. It
results from a specific reflection of a set of Russian officials
actions in the American parliamentary system. The latter allowed
for an abruptness, which part of the Russian bureaucracy decided
to respond to in a wild way, thus reminding to the world how
and by whom they were brought up and what their true nature
is.
A problem of adoption of Russian orphans by a certain type
of American families does exist, but it does not have anything
to do with issuing of US visas to [Russian] officials.
Over the past ten years 19 Russian children adopted by American
parents were killed in the US. However, since the collapse
of the USSR Americans have adopted about 100,000 Russian children
in total. In terms of comparison, according to the RIA Novosti
[news agency], as of 2006, 1220 children adopted by Russian
citizens were killed for the 15 years after the collapse of
the Soviet Union. According to the data from the official
website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation,
there are dozens of documented cases of murder of children
(including infants) by their parents only in 2012.
And now simply because some bureaucratic rascal (who, by
the way, drove these children into a miserable condition because
of his or her theft) will not be allowed to the US for shopping,
thousands of tiny abandoned children will be deprived of the
opportunity to live like ordinary people.
As for Sergei Magnitsky, we believe his actual murder in
prison to be the hardest criminal offense, and those responsible
for it should be punished by law. The American "Magnitsky
Act" does not affect our point of view here, we have
known and understood all about our bureaucracy and corruption
without it.
See also:
Human
Rights
State
Duma’s revenge on the US affects only Russian orphans.
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, December 18,
2012.
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