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Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russian children to the K | dG1fb0hmX3hsd1FqLVU
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00:00Russia's Parliament singled out the United States recently in voting to no
00:07longer allow Americans to adopt Russian orphans this is Danielle and this is his
00:12sister and her name was Valeria they had been exposed HIV they were being treated
00:18for hepatitis C so they really needed help and then we heard that they had
00:23they had decided to ban Russian adoptions for Americans we leaned in hard to engage
00:32with Russia on issues of common interest from everything from arms control to
00:36adoptions and then it ends because it takes two to tango and it was very clear
00:41early on in Putin's presidency that he wasn't interested in the adoptions
00:45agreement that he wasn't interested in peer-to-peer engagement by demonizing
00:49groups that are American or Western the government is using the West as a kind
00:55of political enemy to build up its own domestic reputation I hope that this
01:02process will stop I hope that the repressions will not mount up but
01:07racially thinking expect more oppression more murders more people in jail and more
01:14people who are living in Russia I hope Putin realizes that young people in
01:20Russia they don't want to live in a claustrophobic atmosphere you can't come
01:25down hard against diversity because in doing that he's gonna lose the future
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