   Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on independent Dozhd
(Rain) TV that the adoptions agreement will remain in force
until Jan. 1, 2014 due to its provision that it should be valid
for a year after one of the parties terminates it, which Russia
did on Jan. 1. But he added that all new adoptions and also
those which hadn't been completed before the new law took effect
will be banned.  "In cases when certain judicial procedures
haven't been completed, a complete ban on adoptions by U.S.
parents will be enforced," Peskov said. "The agreement isn't a
mechanism that obliges Russia to provide its children for
adoptions. It regulates the regime for our children there, the
monitoring mechanism."   More than 50 Russian children were
preparing to join their new families in the U.S. when the ban on
adoptions was passed, but it wasn't immediately clear how many
of them already got a court order allowing them to leave Russia
by the time the ban was introduced.  "With regard to those who
had failed to leave even though