This just over the wire from The Moscow News:

12 U.S. Adoption Agencies Targeted

Combined Reports
The Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday called for revoking the accreditation of 12 U.S. adoption agencies, saying the companies had failed to file reports on the condition of Russian children after adoption.

Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky warned in a letter to federal education officials that the agencies were in violation of laws and regulations.

The agencies are Beacon House Adoption Services; Cradle of Hope Adoption Services; Frank Adoption Center, North Carolina; Main Adoption Placement Service; Adoption Together; ABC Adoption Services; Wake-Up; World Association for Children and Parents; Cradle Society; Commonwealth Adoption International; European Adoption Consultants; Creative Adoption; and Adoption Associates, according to a statement on the web site of the Prosecutor General's Office.

No officials from the organizations could be immediately contacted for comment.

It's all about the post-placements, people. I know that Russian adoption is under fire right now by opportunistic politicians, but let's not give them anything with which to fan the fire. Imagine if all those post-placements were in? What could they say? How could they get their moment in the news? Perhaps they'd be forced to object to the sickening conditions in most Russian orphanages or raise caretaker pay or create a social situation where people in Russia didn't have to give up their children due to poverty....

Please. You've gotten me started. I am on my soapbox now.

Why don't people do their post-placements? I know my agency, Frank, calls me to make appointments whenever ours are due. In a past post I said that our social worker said that people move and don't let the agencies know their forwarding addresses, or they don't answer the phone. Or they think it costs too much.

Give me a break. It costs about $30,000 to adopt a child from Russia and you can't fork out $300 or so a year to get your post-placements completed?

What are you waiting for? Do you want Russian adoptions to close? Do you want the fates of all 700,000 children resting on YOUR back?

I don't think you are that strong.