Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров) is now responsible for the Russian-American adoption agreement.
Lavrov is a career diplomat. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He speaks Russian, English, French, and Sinhala, the latter being the language of Sri Lanka, where he served as a Soviet diplomat.
so what does this mean for Americans adopting in Russia?