1.   And, until a new law is put in place, the regional administration in Vladimir said no new adoptions would go forward.

2.   But, like a draft law that sought to mandate AIDS tests for all foreign visitors to Russia, the new adoption law also seems responsive to rising nationalism.

3.   In September, Paraguay suspended new international adoptions for a year to revise its regulations.

4.   So none can initiate new adoptions until specific operating guidelines are established, primarily by the Ministry of Education but with input from five additional government departments as well.

5.   The United States plans to continue its moratorium on new adoptions until the Cambodian government passes legislation intended to eliminate child trafficking.

6.   A new adoption law was passed in March, but enacting it was delayed for months until complex questions of implementing it had been worked out.

7.   Most likely, they will have to go through the entire new adoption process from the start.

8.   Prime minister Adrian Nastase also said the government will adopt a new decree next week maintaining the ban until a new adoption law is passed by parliament.