Russia’s upper house of parliament unanimously approved on Wednesday a controversial law that would ban US nationals from adopting Russian children, RIA Novosti reports.
Police in Moscow detained seven people at a protest outside the Federation Council before the vote on the bill, which was overwhelmingly approved in its third and final reading by the lower house, the State Duma, last week.
“We need to adopt this bill,” Federation Council head Valentina Matvinenko told journalists ahead of the vote. “And believe me, no one has pressured me.”
