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"Children with grave genetic diseases are not adopted by our families, because these children need modern medicine, which in Russia does not exist."
Natasha Pisarenko

Revelations from the mouths of babes. This babe, however, is a high school student, blind from birth. Her lack of eyesight has sharpened her other faculties, obviously. Natasha Pisarenko has become a voice in opposition to the newly enacted Russian law forbidding the adoption of Russian children in the United States.

 

In this image from video provided by APTN on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 Natasha Pisarenko answers a question during a lesson at her school in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. (AP Photo/APTN) 

 

This occurred as a result of the U.S. having put into law a measure to freeze the assets of Russian officials involved in the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, a courageous young Russian lawyer who fought fearlessly against fraud and corruption in his country. Russian politics and business interests are both hugely corrupt, but Vladimir Putin has no wish to see the international community take steps such as this.

To counter the bad publicity and the reality that President Putin's friends and colleagues are all, like himself, corrupt, the law forbidding adoption by Americans of Russian children was enacted. This was before Putin enjoyed the positive publicity of French actor Gerard Depardieu seeking Russian citizenship when France proposed a 72% taxation rate on its millionaires.

Natasha Pisarenko had nothing but scathing scorn for Russia's new law. Her blog entry of January 6, meant as an open letter of protest to Vladimir Putin has gained her notice from varied sources. One of which sources is a spokesman for Mr. Putin, Dmitry Peskov - who had this to say: "This girl is well known to us, she's known by the regional authorities and by the health ministry."

Sounds downright sinister, there is a threatening note about this revelation. Which does not appear to faze the fifteen year-old Russian girl. Who is herself anticipating a trip to the United States. For possible eye surgery that may give her some sight. She was born blind, a condition her father had no trouble identifying.

Russian doctors, however, took their time diagnosing her - about three months. But it took German doctors to accurately diagnose her condition. And later American doctors who identified the defective gene that denied her the normalcy of eyesight. Little wonder she has scant faith in Russian medicine.

Little wonder she has little respect for the new law that would deny hopelessly unwanted children a future.