adoption issues

in case you havent heard, a boy adopted from russian by an american lady was sent back to russia by himself because his adoptive mother decided she could no longer parent him. this, of course, has created a super huge international conflict with russia temporarily suspending adoption to the us.
what this lady has done is irresponsible and terrible. i dont care how bad your kid is, i dont care if he threatens to burn the house, or that he is a terrible kid and you have no patience left in you. no adult sends a kid across the ocean by himself, with a note. i mean, yes, the airlines people were going to take care of him adn give him crayons, but that is not, in any way, the appropriate thing to do. however, to suspend adoption to the us altogether is not cool, since there are so many families in the process of becoming a parent to a little kid. my biggest problem with the whole situation is that russia itself is not big on adoption. there are a ton of orphans, most of them abandoned by their alcoholic parents, others taken away from drug-addicted or HIV+ mothers. and these kids, although cared for by the orphanages the best they can be, remain largely in orphanages, some of them really suffering with congenital things, like fetal alcohol syndrome or hep B. russians are not big on adoption. only recently has there been a new movement to adopt kids and take them out of orphanages. this new trend is spear-headed by celebrities and segments are featured on popular tv shows. but this is a hugely new phenomenon. for years, under the soviet rule, orphaned kids remained in orphanages, and adoption happened only when you absolutely, absolutely could not conceive or when something terrible happened. even then, you moved to a different city and hoped that no one around, including your adopted kid, knew that the kid is adopted. that was a shameful thing. but now, this thing has gotten all these russian officials angry. how dare stupid americans disrespect and abandon our russian children. and yes, that was a bad thing to do. but you dont care about your own kids, havent ever. so why are you now making this huge deal out of it, demanding sanctions, and more importantly denying other loving families a chance to have a kid?
russia has a history, though, i think, of making a lot of splash over issues that they themselves care less for. in early 2000s, Putin donated a ton of money to the Global AIDS Fund to 'fight AIDS in africa', while thousands of HIV+ people in Russia remained without treatment and largely marginalized due to their status. when asked about the state of HIV care in Russia, Putin responded that Russia did not have a problem with AIDS (at the time Russia had the highest rate of new infections in all of europe). maybe it's a big country syndrome. if something happens to an american abroad (ala amanda fox) we all rave about human rights violations, ignoring our own history of such. i'm not trying to dump on russia, or russian politics. i just think it's sad that a kid got dumped by his adoptive family adn many others are left in limbo waiting for their little kid to come home.