Quotes of the Day

Pavel Astakhov, the Russian president's ombudsman for children's rights, plays with Artem Savelyev, 7, at Moscow's No 21 Children's Hospital
Friday, Apr. 16, 2010

Open quoteWe must, as much as possible, keep our children in our country. Close quote

  • PAVEL A. ASTAKHOV,
  • a senior Kremlin official, on Russia's decision to suspend adoptions by Americans after a 7-year-old boy was sent back to Moscow by himself by the Tennessee woman who adopted him
Photo: ITAR-TASS / Landov | Source: NYT