Over two-thirds of Russians support ban on foreign adoptions - poll
MOSCOW. Jan 28 (Interfax) - Seventy percent of the people surveyed by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) said they support the ban on foreign adoptions imposed by the "Dima Yakovlev law", adopted two years ago.
"Seventy percent of the respondents speak in favor of keeping the ban on adoptions for citizens of some countries," VTsIOM General Director Valery Fyodorov said while presenting the results of public opinion polls in Moscow on Wednesday.
Fyodorov said over half of the respondents (53%) are still convinced that the law was beneficial for Russian orphans.
"The main argument in favor of this viewpoint is the statement that children who were born in Russia should stay in their home country. Twenty-eight percent of the respondents agreed. Almost one in five respondents (19%) believes the ban can help protect children. The percentage of respondents who mentioned cases of torture of children by U.S. citizens has decreased considerably (from 27% in 2014 to 16% in 2015)," Fyodorov said.
Fyodorov said only 15% of the respondents believe the ban most likely had a negative effect on the situation of Russian orphans.