MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's interdepartmental commission for child adoption has proposed the abolishment of the independent adoption system through which children are adopted via unaccredited organizations, Russian human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin said Friday following a commission meeting.
The commission considers this system counterproductive and thinks it "opens up strong possibilities of various kinds of manipulation", he said.
Three foreign agencies have already had their accreditation removed "because they did not meet the raised criteria that have now been developed", he said.
There are currently 84 branches of foreign adoption organizations in Russia that were at some point accredited. Of these, 56 have had their accreditation extended, while 28 are under review.
