1.   Besides Salome, his orphanage had four children scheduled for foreign adoption.

2.   After China, Russia is the leading source of foreign adoption for citizens of the United States.

3.   But in April, Vladimir Putin, only a month after having been elected president, promulgated a series of decrees aimed at tightening controls over foreign adoption.

4.   But, the agencies add, foreign adoptions cannot and should not serve as the main answer to the continued high number of institutionalized children.

5.   Even if it is amended in the upper house, she said, foreign adoptions will certainly stop while new procedures are put in place.

6.   Foreign adoptions here are increasingly cast as a mercenary and murky business perpetrated by rich foreigners and greedy, corrupt bureaucrats.

7.   Foreign adoption is a deeply sensitive and emotional issue throughout the former Soviet Union, where adoption soared after communism collapsed.

8.   Her husband had also been thinking about all the lonely children in the world who needed homes and together they started to explore the possibility of a foreign adoption.

9.   In June, all children awaiting foreign adoption in foster homes were returned to local orphanages.

10.   In recent years, many Americans, who must wait for years before adopting a child in the United States, have turned to foreign adoptions.