https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/22/why-is-russia-banning-adoptions-from-the-u-s/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 09:09:16 -0400<![CDATA[In fact, Putin’s response was hardly surprising. He often says that nobody has the right to teach Russia what’s right and what’s wrong; for him, the Magnitsky Act was an insult. During his press conference, which lasted four and a half hours—Putin holds such events only once a year, but he likes them long and big; more than a thousand journalists were present—he brought up the United States many times, even when the question did not suggest it. In an exasperated tone, he talked about America’s own human-rights problems, the brutality of the American police, even the high number of people who took part in early voting (he suggested that the process had been used to manipulate the results.) He sounded personally hurt. “If we are slapped, we need to respond. Otherwise we will be slapped all the time.”&#8230;]]>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:20:53 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/22/why-is-russia-banning-adoptions-from-the-u-s-n98512