Herod law

The Herod law (Закон Ирода) or Anti–Magnitskii bill, or Dima Yakovlev Bill ) or "Anti-orphan bill" (Закон против сирот) is the Russian Law that prohibits the emigration of yang orphans to the USA, even in cases, when some American families want to adopt them and the paperwork about the adoption is almost finished.

The official name of the bill  ФЗ №186614-6 "О мерах воздействия на лиц, причастных к нарушению основополагающих прав и свобод человека, прав и свобод граждан РФ" does not indicate the orphans, but the section 1 of chapter 4 of that bill explicitly prohibits adoption of Russian children by the American families, and the section 2 of that chapter specifies the unilateral breaking the 2012.July.13 international agreement about adoption. The full text of the bill is available at http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/17233 .

The Herod law had been accepted by the Russian Duma and then by the Soviet of Federation and then by Vladimir Putin in 2012 December 28 as reply to the Magnitsky act.

The Herod law caused the international scandal; some links with critics of that bill and some links with the support are mentioned below.

Etymology
Name Herod law arises from the analogy with the Bible:

Matthew 2:16: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

In many cases, the prohibition of emigration for the Russian orphans caused their death. The Criminal authority Yaponchik – Gundiaev even got from the Russian government some land with pretext to burry all the Russian orphans. This action had been accompanied by the corresponding reduction of number of Russian schools. The barbarian attitude to children of the Russian Duma and the Russian president is similar to that of the king Herod, described in the Bible.

Critics of the Herod law
Many protesters indicate that such a bull is logic-less and amoral, because children appear to be hostages of the administration.

Aleksandr Minkin (Александр Минкин indicates that the bill is inconsistent.

Boris Nemtsov (Борис Немцов) suggests that the initiators of the Herod law should be included in into the Magnitsky list, indicating Ekaterina Lakhova (Лахова Екатерина Филипповна), Afanasieva (Афанасьева) and Fiodorov (Федоров), who are believed to be promoters of the most ridicule articles of that bill.

The bill is qualified as barbarian and cannibalistic . The critics indicate the asimmetry and Illogicity of that bill, because in first, it is against the Russian orphans .

Many people thinks that the deputats of the Duma who voted for such a bill deserve to be included into the Magnitsky list. , https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/identify-russian-law-makers-jeopardizing-lives-russian-orphans-responsible-under-magnitsky-act/q9LbTGRB. Similar suggestion applies to Vladimir Putin http://wh.gov/QgKz At the official USA site, the petition against Duma in three days had collected 52 thousand signatures, and the petition against Putin during a day had collected 12 thousand signatures. After that, the collection of signatures had been stopped by the administration of the USA. This caused impression that Obama tries to protect Putin.

Mass protests are organized 2013.01.13 in Moscow and Peterburg . The claim of protesters are not only denouncement of the anti-orphan bill, but also resign of the Russian praliament (Duma).

In December of 2012 or at the beginning of 2013, Mil and Dianna Wallen (Woodstock, VA) sent to the Russian Ministry of Education the petition, suggesting to release 500 Russian orphans, who already know their adopting families, but cannot join them because of the Herod law . According to site "change.org", for 2013 April, the petition has collected of order of 1000 signatures, and the Russian version of the same petition has collected 5000 signatures. .

Support of the Herod law
Support of the Herod law is based on two concepts. First, it is declared to be "symmetric" reply to the Magnitsky act, and the way to show that the Russian administration is really angry about such a decision. Americans, who love children and want to adopt a child from Russia are expected to ask the American administration to cancel the Magnistky act. Second concept declares the Herod law to be reply to the death of Dima Yakovlev, who was adopted in the USA and dead due to the mistreatment there; in this case, the Magnistky ack is not mentioned at all.

The bill against orphans is supported by the Russian "Christia orthodox church"( РПЦ) and, in particular, by Kiril Gundiaev (Кирилл Гундяев) and Vsevolod Chaplin ( Всеволод Чаплин) . The need to reduce the flux of christian to the competing confessions is indicated.

Also, Gundiaev indicates that he arranges the spacial place at the cemetery to burry the Russian orphans . This arrangement is confirmed. The concept about the attempt to burry the Russian orphan children agrees with general concept about antichrist, fascistic profile of the Russian Orthodox church. This concept is denied by the representatives of the Russian administration.

Both, the approval of the Herod law by Vladimir Putin and the assignment of the land to burry the Russian children–orphans happened December 28, just the Holy Innocent day, but Dmitrii Smirnov indicates, that this is just occasional coincidence that has no goal of menace.

2012.12.28. Johan Backman (Бэкман Йохан) had supported that bill with the following sentence: This law is fair and from abroad it looks like a very logical step in response to the US aggressive propaganda against Russia" He said the law is a symmetric response to the US Magnitsky Act which bans Russian officials deemed guilty of human rights abuses to enter the US.

The lists of the Russian Duma (with indications of their votes) and the Russian Federal Council are available at Закон против сирот, поименное голосование в Думе and Совет Федерации РФ (in Russian).

Humor about the Herod law
The dialectics of the two concepts about the Herod law (1.Reply to the Magnitsky act and 2.Care about children that may be abused in the USA) gives ground to a multitude of black jokes about that bill. Few of them are translated below.

http://www.anekdot.ru/id/616268 After to see the reaction of the society on the prohibition of adoption of Russian children by the Americans, Putin told, that if NATO attacks Syria, then Russia will bomb Voronezh. 2012.12.22.

http://www.anekdot.ru/id/616836 Russian Duma had informed the Ameican congress, that if they do not withdraw the Magnitsky Law, then in Russia, the withdrawal of all organs from orphans will be legalized.

http://samlib.ru/k/kuznecow_d_j/revisore3.shtml Mister Pink. (The draft of the Anti-orphan bill had been prepared in the USA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LGq8ovZvKQ Putin, Putin, Let your children go! "Господин Хороший" о "законе Димы Яковлева". Jan 25, 2013.

Keywords
Bible, Cannibalism, Fascism, Magnitsky list, Russia, Sadism, Terror, Vladimir Putin,