41.   Confusion reigns over what exactly the vaguely worded bill will mean for foreign adoptions.

42.   Experts said that instead of hampering foreign adoptions, parliament should stimulate them by setting clear rules for foreign adoption agencies and streamlining legal procedures.

43.   Existing Russian law prevented foreign adoption of healthy babies, and adoption agents frequently are accused of falsifying medical certificates, bribery and other abuses.

44.   Hundreds of children are floating in legislative limbo nearly five months after President Boris Yeltsin signed a long-debated foreign adoption law.

45.   Hundreds of children awaiting adoption by foreigners are stuck in legislative limbo while bureaucrats debate how to implement a foreign adoption law.

46.   If Yeltsin signs the bill into law, there will be a moratorium on foreign adoptions while Russian officials figure out how to implement its provisions.

47.   In December, the Russian parliament passed legislation that sought to curtail foreign adoptions, John said.

48.   In December, Yeltsin vetoed a law that would have effectively halted foreign adoptions by banning intermediary adoption agencies.

49.   It acknowledges that conditions have improved at the Shanghai orphanage in the past two years, partly because it has become a major source for foreign adoptions.

50.   It calls for a government agency to issue operating licenses to non-profit foreign adoption agencies, but no such body has been created yet.