As I recall, the adoption ban was the direct result of an especially awful case of abuse perpetrated by a couple of gay guys who were celebrated in the mainstream media as exemplars of the New Family.
As I recall, the adoption ban was the direct result of an especially awful case of abuse perpetrated by a couple of gay guys who were celebrated in the mainstream media as exemplars of the New Family.
Plenty of Russians drink dangerous alcohol substitutes. Does Putin ban them? No. Putin banned foreign adoptions because it was humiliating and likened Putinist Russia to 3rd world dump holes.
The adoption ban really was a response to the Magnitsky act, but the media justification was about an American adopting father who was taking the kid to the daycare before going to work, except he forgot he has a kid with him and left him in the backseat of the car where the kid died.
While this was a horrible case then when this was in the media a curious statistic came out - orphans in Russia die by 900 (!) times higher ratio than Russian orphans adopted to the US. It clearly wasn’t about child safety.