Russian Adoption Return: Moscow cancel adoptions of Russian children to U.S. families

MOSCOW – Russian Adoption Return: Russia said Friday it will suspend all adoptions of children by American families after a Tennessee woman was returning to Moscow to a minor, which he said was violent and had severe psychological problems.

The boy, Artyom Savelyev, seven years, was placed alone in an airplane with nothing more than a round ticket for his adoptive grandmother, Nancy Hansen, Shelvyville.

“The boy drew a picture of our house on fire and told everyone to burn the house with us inside,” said Hansen told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “We feared for our safety. It was horrible.”

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, said the actions of the grandmother was “high” adoption of a series that ended badly, including three children killed in Russian in America.

The cases raised public anger in Russia, where the press gives wide coverage to failed adoptions. The main Russian television networks broadcast their newscasts at length in the case of the child star Artyom Savelyev.

The Russian Ministry of Education immediately suspended the license to the group involved in the adoption of the child, the World Association for Children and Parents, based in Renton, Washington, for the duration of the investigation.

In Tennessee, authorities were investigating the adoptive mother, Torry Hansen, 33.

Any freeze on adoptions will hurt hundreds of American families. In 2009, nearly 1,600 Russian children were adopted in the United States.

In Washington, the spokesman of U.S. State Department, JJ Crowley, said: “Of course we are very concerned about the case.”

Crowley said the United States and Russia share the responsibility for the safety of minors. Washington and Moscow working closely to ensure that adoptions are legal and properly monitored, he said.

When asked if warranted the suspension of adoptions, Crowley said that if Moscow decided it was “right” because “these are Russian citizens.”

The boy arrived Thursday in Moscow only a United Airlines flight from Washington. Social workers sent the child to a hospital in Moscow so that he conduct a medical examination and censured by the adoptive mother to leave.

The office of children’s rights from the Kremlin said the child was carrying a letter in which her foster mother said he returned because of his severe psychological problems. The woman said the Russian orphanage deceived I had the child.