The Dima Yakovlev Law Russian: It creates a list of citizens who are banned from entering Russia, and also allows the government to freeze their assets and investments.

The law suspends the activity of politically active non-profit organisations which receive money from American citizens or organisations. The bill passed the State Duma on 21 December and the Federation Council on 27 December In Duma in first reading one was against Ilya Ponomarev ; in second reading 4 against Ilya Ponomarev , Dmitry Gudkov , Valery Zubov , Sergei Petrov - all from " A Just Russia " faction ; in third and last reading - 8 against same plus Andrei Ozerov from "A Just Russia", Oleg Smolin and Zhores Alferov from Communist Party of Russia , Boris Reznik from " United Russia ".

In the State Duma, the law was informally named after Dima Yakovlev born Dmitry Yakovlev , a Russian toddler who was adopted by Miles Harrison of Virginia.

The child was renamed Chase Harrison while in America. He had been left alone for nine hours in the car as his father had forgotten to take him to daycare service. Following trial, Harrison was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter by a Circuit Court judge in Fairfax County, Virginia , on January The case became national news in Russia, highlighting abuse cases involving Russian children adopted by American parents.

Following the child's death, Russian federal prosecutors opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident, while Russian authorities called to restrict or end the adoption of Russian children by Americans. On 28 December , Governor of Pskov Oblast Andrei Turchak suspended two officials pending an investigation into their roles in the adoption of Dima Yakovlev. Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that the law will be contested in Russian constitutional courts.

The Russian Orthodox Church supports the law. Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin said that the orphans adopted by American citizens "won't get a truly Christian upbringing and that means falling away from the Church and from the path to eternal life, in God's kingdom ". The British newspaper The Guardian commented on the law that it is "not about children's rights" and "ruins lives and leaves both countries looking sordid.

Amnesty International called the law "in no one's best interest" and have called for Russian parliamentarians to reject the law. On 14 January , about 20, people marched against the law in Moscow.

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