Currently, Russia has such agreements with Italy and France

The Federation Council ratified the agreement on cooperation with Spain in the field of adoption of children from Russia, reports "Interfax".

"The main goal of the Treaty is to secure the interests of the children offered for international adoption. In based on the principles and provisions of the Convention on the rights of the child of 20 November 1989 and the Convention on protection of children and cooperation in respect of intercountry adoption of 29 may 1993", - stated in the explanatory note to the draft law on ratification of the agreement.

The document was signed in Madrid on 9 July 2014 and ratified by Spain on 16 October 2014. It sets out the principles for the adoption of children, requirements for future moms and dads, the procedure for monitoring the living conditions and upbringing of the adopted child and other aspects.

The Treaty provides for a ban on child adoption by same-sex couple.

Currently, Russia has such agreements with Italy and France.

Last week this agreement was ratified at a meeting of the state Duma of the Russian Federation. As reported at the meeting of the Deputy Minister of education and science Veniamin Kaganov, Russia now has in the Bank data on adoptions made 85 thousand children. This figure has decreased by about 20% compared with 2014, said the Deputy Minister. In Spanish families already live about 3.5 thousand Russian children. Citizens of Spain for the last nine years 7517 adopted children from Russia.