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| Subject: Russian orphan in plea to that criminal Putin Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:42 pm | |
| A 14-YEAR-old Russian orphan with a debilitating genetic disease has reportedly asked President Vladimir Putin for the right to live with his prospective adoptive family in the United States.
But the Kremlin has called the news items false and a provocation aimed at discrediting Russia’s international reputation and embarrassing Mr Putin.
The plea from a boy named Maxim in the hard-scrabble Urals city of Chelyabinsk came two weeks after Mr Putin signed into law a bill banning all US adoptions.
The measure was given fast-track approval and almost no parliamentary debate in reprisal for new US legislation that targets alleged Russian human rights abusers.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/russian-orphan-in-plea-to-putin-20130111-2cjr2.html#ixzz2HdBEohWc
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