US family sends adopted boy back to Russia alone

Russia’s foreign minister today urged that child adoptions to the US are frozen after an American woman put an eight-year-old Russian boy she had adopted on a one-way flight back to Moscow unaccompanied.

Artyom Savelyev, who carried the adoptive name Justin Hansen, got off a flight from Washington on Thursday at a Moscow airport, the Kremlin children’s rights office said today.