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A demonstrator holds a poster reading "We are for Dima Yakovlev Bill" outside the Federation Council on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Several protesters were detained Wednesday morning outside the upper chamber of Russia's parliament as it prepared to vote on a controversial measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children. The bill is named in honor of Dima Yakovlev, a Russian toddler who was adopted by Americans and then died in 2008 after his father left him in a car in broiling heat for hours. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian parliament endorses anti-U.S. adoption bill

By Mansur Mirovalev and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Russian police officers detain a demonstrator protesting against a bill banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children outside the Russian parliament’s upper chamber in Moscow on Wednesday. The chamber unanimously voted in favor of the measure. (Associated Press)

Ban on U.S. adoptions goes to Putin

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press