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Hudson Valley feels chill of Russian adoption ban

Robin Liebowitz and her husband, Philippe, with their

Photo credit: Handout | Robin Liebowitz and her husband, Philippe, with their 9-year-old son, Yuriy, who was adopted from Russia in 2010.

For Robin Liebowitz, an international marketing executive from Westchester County, the sense of dread is all too familiar.

In June 2010, she and her husband were in the final stages of trying to adopt a 6-year-old boy from an orphanage in southern Siberia, just months after a Tennessee woman caused an international furor when she put her adopted, 7-year-old, Russian-born son on a plane alone,...

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