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More restrictions on adopting Russian children. Russia’s upper house of parliament has endorsed a bill banning the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Federation Council on Nov. 20 also approved bills that outlaw the spread of material that encourages people not to have children. The bills have already been approved by the lower house and will now go to President Vladimir Putin to sign into law. Mr. Putin and other top officials have increasingly called for observing so-called traditional values as a counter to Western liberalism.

At BRICS summit, Russia tries to build a world without the US

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