Congress recently passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act and President Obama signed into law on December 14, 2012.
In response, Russia is considering legislation that is being referred to as the Dima Yakovlev Law; this law would end Intercountry Adoption between Russia and the United States.
Many thousands of Russian born children have been adopted and thrived in the love and care of their American families. If adoption between Russia and the United States were to close, many thousands of children would likely languish in orphanages instead of finding their way to safe, loving, permanent families in the United States.
Please ask President Obama to contact President Putin of Russia and ask him not to allow this amendment to become part of Russian law.