MOSCOW, August 15 (RAPSI) – Lawmakers from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) are drafting a bill seeking to ban countries which have introduced sanctions against Russia from adopting Russian children, Izvestia newspaper reported Friday.

Party member Roman Khudyakov believes that Russia should not trust countries that have introduced sanctions against it on matters concerning life and health of its children.

“We need to prohibit adoption of Russian children by citizens of these countries,” the paper quotes Khudyakov as having said.

“In the West, when children are subjected to criminal abuse by their adoptive parents, there is nothing we can do,” Khudyakov says.

"Europe promotes values of human destruction, notions of mother and father are eliminated in families," according to the lawmaker. “Our children should not live in such conditions, and  we should provide them with a better future in Russia,” Khudyakov said. He claims that Russia should pay handsome sums to Russian families to raise parentless children.

On August 1, the European Union and the United States introduced a new package of economic sanctions against Russia which aim to restrict access of some Russian banks to EU markets.

US nationals were prohibited from adopting Russian children after the so-called Dima Yakovlev law came into force in January 2013. The law was adopted as a retaliation to the accident when Dima Yakovlev, aged 21 months, died in the US in July 2008. His adoptive father Michael Harrison left the child in a locked car in a parking lot for nine hours. Harrison was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.

After the Dima Yakovlev law was passed and signed, Russia’s adoption regulations were augmented with a restriction on sending children to countries which have legalized same-sex marriage.