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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Netanyahu ducks U.S. nuclear summit, fearing censure 1:31pm EDT Women tried to smuggle corpse onto plane? 06 Apr 2010 Regulators looking at antibacterial in soap 08 Apr 2010 Special Report: How the U.S. cracked open secret vaults at UBS 6:12am EDT Iran will not beg to avoid sanctions: Ahmadinejad 08 Apr 2010 Women tried to smuggle corpse onto plane? 06 Apr 2010 Workers strike over ban on drinking at work 08 Apr 2010 Regulators looking at antibacterial in soap 08 Apr 2010 Netanyahu ducks U.S. nuclear summit, fearing censure 1:31pm EDT Special Report: How the U.S. cracked open secret vaults at UBS 6:12am EDT Russia eyes U.S. adoption freeze after boy returned Conor Humphries MOSCOW Fri Apr 9, 2010 4:49pm EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it planned to halt the adoption of its children by U.S. citizens after a U.S. woman returned her adopted son on a plane to Moscow with a note disowning him. World | Russia Artyom Savelyev, 7, arrived alone at a Moscow airport on Tuesday with a typed letter asking the Russian government to annul the adoption on the grounds the child was mentally unstable, officials said. "The way he was treated was beyond immoral," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with state-run news channel Rossiya-24 broadcast on Friday. "We have made a decision that the Foreign Ministry will insist on freezing all adoptions by U.S. families until Russia and the U.S. sign an interstate treaty setting out adoption terms." Russia is the third largest source of foreign adoptions to the United States with 1,586 in 2009, according to the U.S. State Department. Artyom, renamed Justin Hansen by his American parents, was adopted from an orphanage in the Primorye region in Russia's Far East in 2009. After six months, his adoptive mother decided he was not fitting in and bought him a one-way ticket to Moscow. "The child is mentally unstable. He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues. I was lied to and misled by the Russian orphanage," said the note, which was shown on Russian television. "For the safety of my family, friends and myself, I no longer wish to parent this child." Television pictures showed the fair-haired Artyom nervously waving at a line of cameras. He was undergoing tests at a Moscow hospital on Friday as authorities considered who would take care of him, officials said. U.S. AMBASSADOR'S ANGER In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. government was "obviously very troubled" by the case, but hoped that it would not preclude future adoptions. "If Russia chooses to suspend these adoptions, these are Russian citizens, that is Russia's right. We would like to see these adoptions continue but we understand the concern that Russia has, we share that concern," he told a news briefing. U.S. officials would work with both Russian officials and international adoption agencies to strengthen protections for such children, he added. Russia's top investigative body said it was probing Artyom's adoption to see if any law had been broken. The Kremlin's ombudsman for children's rights Pavel Astakhov said Artyom had been mistreated by his adopted mother. Artyom was met at a Moscow airport by a tour guide who had been paid $200 by his adoptive mother to "deliver him to the Education Ministry like a parcel," Astakhov said. The ministry runs the country's orphanages and is responsible for adoptions. The U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle condemned Artyom's adoptive parents, and said authorities in the United States would also check if a crime had been committed. "As parents, my wife and I were deeply shocked by the news of Justin Artyom Hansen, and very angry that any family would act so callously toward a child that they had legally adopted," Beyrle said in a statement. Russia tightened its adoption process after several Russian children died at the hands of abusive parents in the United States. The additional procedures caused a sharp fall in numbers of U.S. adoptions from a peak of 5,862 in 2004. Cases of abuse receive wide media coverage in the Russia, where many see the large number of adoptions by Western families as humiliating for a relatively wealthy country. The Foreign Ministry is demanding a new bilateral deal with the United States to improve adoption screening and to increase monitoring of the children after they leave Russia. (Writing by Conor Humphries; additional reporting by Andrew Quinn in Washington; Editing by David Stamp) World Russia Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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