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Irish leader Enda Kenny (l) and Van Rompuy - two of Kenny's MPs got cold feet after the Russian letter (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Russia threatens Ireland with adoption ban

Russia has threatened to impose a US-type adoption ban on EU presidency country Ireland if its MPs pass a tough resolution on the late anti-corruption activist Sergei Magnitsky.

Its ambassador in Dublin, Maxim Peshkov, made the threat in a letter to deputies on the Irish parliament's foreign affairs and trade committee dated 11 March and seen by EUobserver.

Referring to the committee's draft resol...

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