Thousands of people have marched and converged in Moscow's Pushkin Square on Saturday March 2,2013 to support a ban on adoptions of Russian children by Americans.
Carrying signs with slogans including "Children are our future" and "America – hands off our children"
Police said 12,000 people joined the rally, which was inspired by the government's announcement of an adoption ban
There are more than 650,000 orphans in Russia, and 110,000 of them lived in state institutions in 2011. There were about 7,400 adoptions by Russian families in 2011, and 3,400 adoptions by families abroad.
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