because this is the first agreement with the united states of america which will be assigned i hope on these days and first of all we decrease the number of agencies official agencies which help candidates for future adoptive parents to take the russian children to their american families and we stop at all so-called independent adoption because the most problems which we hear when we see area of interests. independent adoptions independent adoption is when is this study x. not through an agency like like played by a tour well i dunno tend to morocco you can go through an agency and compare you can go through an agency though you could just individually come there find out tell so this is individual adoption when people just buy a visa come to moscow find a child somewhere and try to course although sometimes to find in

a person who can be an intermediate or in these broads for example in their independent lawyer so this will be abolished for good only through age as well as well i've read that from now on adoption of russian children by families in the united states will be carried only i quote by u.s. based agencies that made the hague adoption convention requirements yet what are. they principles they were there before and america was one of the countries who signed what are they obligatory before that one will think you can take attention to it if it's necessary to be to be. recognized as a official agency in the united states of america based on principle of adoption convention and. official it in syria must be yours. recognized

in russia is official agency for adoption process fortunately we do not recognize the how convention on adoption of children but anyway in the situation we. have this restriction or. necessary step to be to be united as an official agency based on hog adoption principle called conventional e.u. are you talking about the officially recognized agency because because it's very it's very comfortable for the american partners to do to establish always work based on hog adoption principle from which ok you recently protest because i'm sorry because we are parts in different convention we got a nice. income of children's rights but the united states of america doesn't do it . at the same time as the united states of america recognize convention we do not

part of this convention i see so you recently protested against an adoption of eight russian children it was carried out through a u.s. adoption organization doesn't this case that an official organization. form to adoption and from your point of view it was it had to be turned out to be illegal. what paved the way corruption russian corruption isn't good at the root of the power of all the problems with adoption you're right when the when when you are talking about some corruption salutes because in each kids which we know in which we. researched for example the case of art of severely the case of denise for her recall as a case of. sisters. in each reese case we find out the

found out some mistakes errors or illegal documents so it means that the candidates for future adoptive parents. presented some. i can see not. real papers not real documents and in this situation we didn't have any chance to check it because there are no instrument nobody to check so this this agreement will give you their ideal we say agreement to build up to establish the body the central body of peace agreement which will consist of american specialists and russian specialists minister for education and from department of justice of that is this if america is planning to to sign similar similar agreements with countries in europe yes of

course unfortunately during the last eight years eighteen years which we. have had this process of international adoptions we don't have enough enough agreements and we have only one agreement was italian republic unfortunately and our goal is to establish or underside all these contacts agreement or treaties we all contras from where adoptive parents come to russia to pick up due to take and to adopt our russian children cross border adoptions gone wrong have shown the failure of international law to look after children's rights spotlights media reports. a russian boy flown back to moscow by his adoptive family in america. the story made headlines

a year ago public indignation and made lawmakers of the two countries work on the solution seven year old or term so they leave the play no one with a note from these adoptive mother she claimed the boy was mentally unstable and she could no longer care for him after what happened to our told the russian foreign ministry immediately called for a suspension of all adoptions by u.s. citizens russia in the u. west eventually started drafting a bilateral agreement concerning the now after seven rounds of negotiation the document is about to be signed a set of rules governing cross border adoption is believed to guarantee the safety of russian children adopted by parents from the u.s. but america is just one out of dozens of countries where russian infants find a home currently one hundred thirty thousand kids are in a waiting list for potentially being adopted by foreigners many russians believe

the country should try and solve the problem of abandoned children domestically as for the international law there's another area which is believed to be on the regulated cross border disputes between divorced parents like in the case of elizabeth who was abducted and taken across international borders by her own parents three times a russian cordy gave custody to the girl's mother while the french authorities to her father's side and cases like this it usually takes the efforts of diplomats on both sides to reach an amicable deal between the two parties. you mentioned this agreement with italy that you have in europe two years ago oh european country as some other countries that you're working with today we started to walk. on this issue starting from whiskeys which we looked. just so you know and now or agreement with the french

republic is almost too rigid and i hope it will be signed probably next spring. where work in agreement with israel because israel. has a bricked is too big for dogs and many russian children with unparallel you spin with the norwegian feel and love you work with and. with a great deal of agency with a great deal of cases many countries but the most cases the most tragic cases that we hear about in the news the news comes from america how would you explain this regularity. of russian adopted children children in the united states. i was the genesis of america just three weeks ago and we this was not the first time. it was a special visit to center internet and the national center for missing and

exploiting children and not me american specialists told me the level of violence and cruelty in the american family is too high too high so you can see is that situations towards russian children towards all children onto toward all children even their own children yes yes absolutely so you want you're saying now that american families generally cruel to. say so but as americans what is really says that all cruelty is more and more and more every year among among native americans or among immigrants or first wave immigrants i can share i can share and. i think in erie. kinds of families where we can find it and i can compare this is doing. and that is of american in russia because russia is

a problem of cruelty and violence in our families against native children not only against the step or adopted children used to have. you sent in one of your interviews that since the adoption started while well like a wide practice more than fifteen years ago seven billion probably and it's been years ago seventeen russian children have died in the united states as a result of child abuse but some sixty thousand children born in russia have been adopted by families in the sixty thousand children maybe more seventeen of them died can we talk about and an exceptional level of violence seventeen out of sixty thousand. you see is the law of large numbers doesn't work in this issue and i can say is that. not sixty

thousand probably much more about maybe more than a hundred thousand because we do not have any information about so kind independence adoption we don't have any information about children who were replaced from russia to the united states of america as a border adoption like yeah exactly even now we have two cases children who were sent to work asian and still in the united states of america this is a win tonight is this we're going to get free is the goal for example is the case of the duma which now is leading the family in the state of your and the problem is that these parents who are not parents exactly because the they don't have any. child don't want

to adopt him. do not want to let him go home to russia this is a situation so that's part of the presidential commission there for children's rights spotlight will be back shortly will continue to. break up. with the end of the boer war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake. or weapons on hair trigger alert. to use it as a threat. but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars

a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

welcome back to spotlight i'm al green arvin my guest on the show is spiral our staff of the presidential commission for children's rights panel you just mentioned in the exceptional case in the state of iowa in the united states when when a guy from russia a kid went on vacation to stay with american family years ago yeah they don't want to adopt him and they don't want to send him back to russia and what about his own parents what are they doing where are they are they in russia does the ad living parents no no no no he's in office or from the law firm so he will send them vacation by an orphanage. by orphanage you know with no support or for non-governmental organization and now we hear a second case when children were really pleased from the russian federation for vacation to that is this of america and to a problem for years for free days ago on they had to be back but didn't.

so i don't why does that happen this is a kind of fake cheryl adoption i can say but this is not a legal adult show they actually nuking the kids i mean i mean but the kid has no rights if he's there is a legally what do american courts say about that all american official said told us that were is not violence or is not cruelty toward these children so or we don't have any authority to to do something if me if you go to the united states and stay there for three years instead of three months they'll kick you out because you're violating the laws so why is the kid staying with three years and it well you can say things like i cannot explain the situation because we have some papers from some response from american officials from the state of our your some of the city way of use child leave now. this is they didn't see. any

violations of law anywhere else. and as we told. seventeen died or killed children in american adoptive families i can say. with the words of former under so there are jim burley. american i was there in the russian federation he told me that he one wound is too much even ones do much ok the russian you mentioned that in russia the level of violence to be frank in families is as high as the united states is there true. even towards their own children we can compare because we don't know the exact truth about the situation but that is the level of violence and cruelty against children adults or children need to chill is too high in conference how how how how serious

is this problem with russia and who except your office is dealing with the problems of violence against children in inside russia family from my point of view this is the main problem of russian families in russian society because the level of cruelty and violence against sudan in russian families is too high too high and you can see that all problems of small children is going from of these be here of their parents. abusing violence cruelty to work children. and we're working on the situation we're working with prosecutors we're working with and seems to get if the police authority is with a social worker because my my idea is to start to walk when the family just is staying on the border of this social instability

and we have to start to work with this family starting early. but to prevent future cruelty of violence and the last time you came to this studio we talked with you in this studio we talked about special juvenile courts and you said that pretty soon special juvenile justice will start working the courts will open when will value when will you say is a problem is that in the russian society and first of all in russian mentality the juvenile system would do no justice is now something like. like a ghost like a ghost and. many of our russian people do. do not know exactly what is this afraid of this scary wild. so called juvenile justice or to everyone here we can see that many russians are against you in our

quest is that because russians don't like judges i don't believe it maybe maybe not don't don't don't like judges it's only maybe afraid or scary about judges and all the judge system but we have decided that we made the political decision to stop these. in the future a lot of juvenile system and we have we hear some juvenile courts in the russian federation similar regions here's a so-called pioneer sprawl ject. and juvenile courts and started to walk a broadly ten years ago is the russian federation we can't we can research experience we can present this experience to the public discussion for example and we're. the bull for the situation when some people in russian society for these juvenile sees them or some against so in this situation we first of all

need to calm down to go on them and never another problem we discussed in spotlight was the necessity of our children's arbitrement in schools because according to to statistics and is detested story. but this is a terrific lie in two thousand and nine. thirty nine hundred children have committed suicide in two thousand and ten thirty seven hundred children have committed suicide because of humiliation at school is something done about it are ombudsman coming to schools probably were promised the problem is that official figures but we know that the number of poor children more money is higher and a new situation we're looking for some decision not very expensive decision but necessary decision in the one i was there with is to establish a so-called mediation. or mediation group or mediation

mediator who can be between. the school for it is a parent's and children and where we are looking for the decision to establish psychologist in every in every school oh maybe to establish the institute of a school or school commissioner for juveniles rights. few different issues but all of them. can visit system for prevention of so high numbers of suicide. among young children but who will children trust i mean you need a lot of people young people that will be trusted by kids well well well you can have britney spears working at it as such a person mediating but. you need people of this level of trust from.

this is a main idea to have a person. who can be. who who children can trust to and who they will talk to i mean exactly and. i'm sure that in every city in every region we can find such a person who can do it and the problem is that nobody wants to search his people. who can be mediator or some. unofficial affords here for these children ever since but there are hundreds of schools so we need hundreds of people like what one was a major source of prevention for children. to build a form of trust. special time for special tell one year and then we hear that with their own number which is now a work in a region in the recent years telephone psychologist it was where you had worse yes

i can say that i have checked in many regions and more than sixty regions and region of these two forms of organ and. every week very good there is a good two or three calls from children who has ideas about maybe future suicide thank you thank you very much and just to remind that that my guest in this video today was part of the presidential commission that puts. children's rights and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to add your sales pipeline to our someone of the mind do you think i should invite him to studio just drop me a line a paladin of the t.v. dog are you and let's keep spotlights interact we'll be back with more profound comments on the world's going on in and out found. stay in the party and take

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a national day of mourning across russia around a hundred thirty people killed. in washington hoping to jumpstart the stalled. peace talks. rejects criticism of its west bank settlements. as a pressure. that sweden is nothing more than a staging post u.s. . news twenty four. flags at half mast across russia as the country mourns the

victims of its worst boat accident in three decades sixty three people have been. trapped. below the. river. so the chances of finding more survivors. of. this tragedy such shock waves around the country and indeed around the world instead of. the rush at the. table the fence will be canceled and that won't even be. on the t.v. people pay their respects to be involved in this tragedy. minute silence. a large number of bodies still around seventy bodies so they have to bring to the surface around thirty forty the food to be the children that we've heard the tragic story that they got trapped in that game three but as you said incredibly

disturbing for the friends and family who are still waiting. and of course. the news that they were wanting they were hoping they were praying that there would be some good news but as we said the dogs are still working to achieve those bodies that remain trapped on board but i don't really try to give them a full of the move was that because of the number of children involved because a lot of people are now saying that it could have been avoided i know my colleague tom boston has been down at the scene and he looks more into these loopholes that could have contributed to the thinking about but so tragically on the folks on sunday. first came on tragedy. means a bit there are three of them and because i've been my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when the wave crashed into them and he lost a group of my grandson he said he swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can't find my grandson.