2 Oct, 2014
Russia cancels FLEX student exchange with the US | DW.DE
The Russian government decided on Wednesday to ditch a 20 year-old exchange that sent Russian high school students to the US amid escalating tensions between the former Cold War enemies. According to a report in the AFP news agency, the Kremlin accused the US of encouraging a student to stay behind under the guardianship of a gay couple and therefore bypassing a Russian law banning adoption by gay parents.
“The child, who has a mother in Russia, has illegally been placed under guardianship, and the boy has been handed over to a US gay couple,” Russia’s children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said. Astakhov added that the boy was from a good background and was perfectly healthy, saying he could therefore see no arguments against him returning to his homeland.
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