Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree banning the adoption of Russian children by same-sex couples, as well as by unmarried citizens of countries where same-sex marriage is legal. The decree was published on the government web portal and came into force on 12 February 2014. The document reads that adoption is allowed [...]
The head of the lower house committee for family issues has described a new set of legislative amendments protecting the values shared by basic religions, and inspiring young people to choose marriage over cohabitation. MP Yelena Mizulina of the center-left Fair Russia party said that she opposed the complete rewriting of family laws, but urged [...]
Russia will establish special courts to adjudicate cases involving international child abduction cases, Deputy Minister for Education and Science Veneiamin Kaganov told RIA Novosti Monday. In 2011, Russia joined the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which aims to facilitate the immediate retrieval of children unlawfully transported to any of the 87 member states of the Convention. [...]
The lawmakers in Russia are working on a set of amendments that would effectively ban single men from using the services of surrogate mothers, governmental daily Rossiskaya Gazeta reports on Tuesday. The amendments will include for instance, a provision which would prohibit manipulation of the resulting child’s gender, with the rare exception for gender-based genetic deficiencies. The proposed legislation [...]
