Another Russian Abandoned

From Yahoo News:
"Russian boy, 12, abandoned in Dominican Republic"

I had to add this article after reading it. I am sick and tired of hearing about how every American who adopts a Russian only wants to mistreat them. While there have been some awful cases of mistreatment it is not only Americans who are doing this - but also Russians themselves. After the American woman sent her adopted Russian son back to Russia the Russian media went crazy and the Russian Government stopped all adoptions to America.

Well it seems Russians who adopt other Russians are just as guilty. A Russian couple adopted a boy from Russia and took him to the Dominican Republic with them where they abandoned him. Now the boy is stuck there and the Russian Government doesn't seem to want to do a think to help him (their excuse is that he no longer understands Russian and has grown to live in the hot weather.) Talk about a bunch of stupid excuses. The whole adoption system in Russia needs to be changed from the orphanages and organizations using the innocent boys and girls to get money to the adoptive parents. It needs to change from top to bottom and from Russia to the rest of the world.

No one seems to care about this boy in the D.R. (I think it is because he was adopted by Russians.) Had the boy been adopted and abandoned by Americans or anyone else then I'm sure the Russian Government and media would be all over this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100420/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_dominican_russian_boy