Petition in Connection with Russian Legislature to Ban International Adoption by US Citizens

[Irina Shevelenko]

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider signing the following petition (link and full text below).
Pease share with your friends and colleagues as you see fit.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/identify-russian-law-makers-jeopar
dizing-lives-russian-orphans-responsible-under-magnitsky-act/q9LbTGRB
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Identify Russian law-makers jeopardizing lives of Russian orphans
responsible under "Magnitsky Act".

We, the undersigned,

- acknowledge the adoption of "Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability
Act of 2012" as a profoundly pro-Russian step which will help Russian
citizens bring individuals involved in corruption and violation of human
rights to justice;

- are outraged with the actions of Russian law-makers, who breached all
imaginable boundaries of humanity, responsibility, or common sense and chose
to jeopardize lives and well-being of thousands of Russian orphans, some of
whom, the ill and the disabled ones, now might not have a chance of survival
if the ban on international adoption is to be put in place;

- urge this Administration to identify those involved in adopting such
legislature responsible under "Magnitsky Act" and thus included to the
relevant list."
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Irina Shevelenko
Associate Professor
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706

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