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Let Americans adopt: Thousands of Russians marched in the bitterly cold streets of Moscow this week to protest a new ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans. Russia has more than 700,000 orphans and only some 18,000 Russian families willing to adopt. The Russian government passed the ban last month in response to the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. travel ban against certain Russian officials accused of human rights abuses. The adoption ban has reignited the ire of the middle-class opposition toward President Vladimir Putin, whose re-election sent more than 100,000 people into the streets last year, but the ban is not unpopular among ordinary Russians. Russian media have widely publicized cases of orphans being abused or killed by their adoptive parents in the U.S.

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