Dec 22, 2012 Russia_Immoral to use children in politics -- tycoon
Leader of Russia's Civil Platform party Mikhail Prokhorov spoke at a press conference on Friday about his party's political results this year and its plans for 2013.
He commented on the Dima Yakovlev Law, passed by Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday. It bans the adoption of Russian children by US citizens and is a hit-back at the US for its Magnitsky Act, which blacklists Russians accused of human rights offences.
Prokhorov said, "it's absolutely unacceptable to use children for any political purposes. As a great Russian writer put it, 'the happiness of the entire world is not worth a single teardrop of a child'."
He promised that the Civil Platform party would allocate $50,000 to each family that adopts one of the 46 children who may not find parents as a result of the Dima Yakovlev Law.
"I believe that it would be sensible to make amendments to this law so that it would work only for those citizens who mistreated our children or, possibly, against those judges who made decisions that were wrong for our children."
Speaking on upcoming elections, Mikhail Prokhorov said he is going to take part in the election to Moscow City Council in 2014 and that the party candidate may also run for Moscow mayor in 2015.
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