A third agency,  European Adoption Consultants, EAC, is now undergoing a thorough investigation because they did not report the incident in a timely manner.

Alexei Golovan, the Moscow ombudsman, said that Agencies must be held accountable for their work. “If they fail to meet their responsibilities, they should be barred from operating in Russia,” he said, adding that he would like to see more Russian parents adopt children.

Apparently, 14 children have been killed by their adoptive families as compared with 12 in Russia (over the last 15 years).

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Agency Barred after VA Toddler’s Death

According to the MOE website this is not an official revocation of the accreditation but a suspension to allow time to clear things up. Family and Children’s Agency has one month and the Cradle of Hope has three months to correct whatever caused the suspension. Until then, they are not allowed to process adoptions in Russia.

This is unfortunate for agencies like COH because their China program is not moving quickly and I can only assume they have a limited number of families in the Guatemala program now.

You can use translation websites like Babelfish to translate the MOE website.

Here is the information that I received from a listserve. You can also find the info on FRUA via Karen.

Here is order 654 in Russian – (use google or promt or bable fish to
translate it)
http://www.usynovite.ru/documents/federal/regulations/229/

21. Delegation of the relevant foreign organizations are obliged to report
within a week of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian
Federation, as well as in the executive authorities of relevant subjects of
the Russian Federation about the change of location, phone number, personal
representation of employees, changes in respect of a valid license (or other
document), confirming the (confirmation) of foreign powers relevant
organizations to implement activities for the adoption of the reorganization
or liquidation of the foreign organization, as well as on any other changes
affecting the activity to adoption of children.

Paragraph 25

25. Representatives of the organizations represented in the Foreign Ministry
of Education and Science of the Russian Federation:

A)  annually in the manner determined by the Ministry of Education and
Science of the Russian Federation, a report of its activities adoption;

b) immediate information on cases of deaths of children adopted, abuse,
inability to adapt their adoptive parents in the family, adoption and repeal
(or) the conversion of children in another family (as well as information is
submitted immediately of foreign organizations in the executive authority
subject of the Russian Federation );

c) at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian
Federation copies of contracts entered into the relevant foreign
organization with the competent authorities of the State of the whereabouts
of foreign organizations engaged in the preparation of opinions on the
living conditions of candidates for adoptive parents and the opportunity to
be adoptive parents and will be required to monitor conditions life and
upbringing of adopted children, to prepare and provide to the foreign
organizations relevant records and information on children as well as
provide other information about the activities of adoption of children.

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Russian Accreditation Suspensions