Putin backs disputed US adoption ban
- Published: 20 Dec 2012 at 17.46
- Online news: World
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday backed tough pending legislation making it illegal for Americans to adopt Russian children in reprisal for a new Washington human rights law.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds the first major press conference of his third term in power in Moscow, on December 20, 2012. Putin on Thursday backed tough pending legislation making it illegal for Americans to adopt Russian children in reprisal for a new Washington human rights law.
But in his first major press conference of his third term as president, he also denied running an "authoritarian system" in which all branches of power and most facets of society closely followed the dictates of Kremlin rule.
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