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Long-awaited Kyiv center processes foreign adoptions
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Marta Kolomayets
Ukrainian Weekly, The
11-24-1996
Long-awaited Kyiv center processes foreign adoptions.
On October 22, John and Hanna D. - a married Canadian couple with Ukrainian roots - became the proud parents of 18-month-old Sashko from Zhytomyr after the Kyiv City Court approved their adoption.
They are the first foreign couple to adopt a Ukrainian child since the moratorium on adoptions in Ukraine by foreigners was lifted on January 30 and Ukraine's code on civil procedures was amended and went into effect on July 25 of this year.
"I think it is truly symbolic that the first foreign ...
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