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A draft law on joining the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects ofInternational Child Abduction has been submitted to the Lower
House of the Russian Parliament. The convention paves the way forprotecting Russian children from abduction and bringing those who
violate the convention to justice.
The convention was concluded in The Hague in October 1980. At
present, 82 countries, including the majority of the CIS member
countries and the Baltic States are party to the convention. The
convention ensures prompt return of children who have been
abducted from their country of habitual residence or wrongfully
retained in a contracting state that has joined it. It also helps tohonour the rights of guardianship over children and provides accessto divorced parents to communicate with them.
Lately, noisy scandals linked to children of mixed families ofRussians and foreigners have cropped up one after another. Russia
has no bilateral agreements on mutual judicial assistance on civil
affairs with the majority of states, which detain children born to suchfamilies.

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When Russia joins the convention, it will get an opportunity to defend
children born to parents of mixed marriages, Russians married toforeigners, says a member of the Lower House committee handlingthe issues of family, women and children, Nina Ostanina. The deputy
emphasizes that this concerns problematic situations like that of theactress Natalya Zakharova who has been denied access to herdaughter Masha living in France for several years.
“There are precedents with a positive outcome. For one, a Belarus
sick girl, who underwent medical treatments in Italy, was detained by
an Italian family because they liked her. However, the child wasreturned to Belarus following a verdict by a court in Genoa in linewith the convention. In fact, Belarus is a participant of the

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At present, none of the verdicts issued by foreign courts concerning
Russian children can be used in Russia. However, when Russia joins
the convention it will get an opportunity to use them. It has been
proved that it’s no easy task to implement the convention. The keytask before Russia is to set up a central body to implement theconvention in the country. It is entitled to assist in searching forchildren who have been abducted by parents and in theimplementation of the decisions by foreign courts. It’s unclear which
ministry will undertake these functions, Education, Justice or someother ministry. The final step will be educating Russian judges, whowill be specialized in examining such cases, by experts ininternational law.

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