Russia is considering suspending the adoption of Russian children by people in the United States until the two countries conclude an International agreement on the conditions governing such adoptions. The proposed move follows the case of a seven-year-old Russian boy who were sent back unaccompanied from the United States after his adopted family rejected him. Steve Kingstone reports.
The US State Department says it's very troubled by the case of the seven-year-old Artyom Savelyev who arrived unaccompanied in Moscow on a flight from Washington. The Russian authorities say the boy was carrying a letter from his adoptive mother back in Tennessee, Torry Hansen. She reportedly wrote that the child had become violent and mentally unstable and that she no longer wished to parent him. It is understood she took custody of Artyom last September. The US authorities are investigating whether she committed crime by sending her son back to his homeland.
Officials in Indian-Administered Kashmir say they will for the first time allow foreigners to climb more than 100 high altitude peaks later this year. That Peaks that will be opened for tracking and mountaineering are situated at an altitude ranging from 3000 meters to nearly 8000 meters. Mostly in the eastern Karakoram Range in the Ladak region. The officials say that the move is an attempt to boost the province's tourism industry.
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藏匿在吉尔吉斯斯坦南部的总统库尔曼别克·巴基耶夫(Kurmanbek Bakiyev)说,他担心一旦回到首部比什凯克他将被杀害。本周初发生起义之后,巴基耶夫逃离首都,并在吉南部贾拉拉巴德一个秘密地点接受BBC记者采访。