FILE - In this 2009 photo provided by the family, Renee Thomas holds Nikolai at an orphanage in Kursk, Russia. On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Thomas went on television in Russia with an emotional appeal for an exception to be made to Russia's year-old ban on adoptions by Americans. She and her husband adopted a boy from Russia in 2008 and refuse to give up long-standing efforts to also adopt Nikolai, their son's biological brother. (AP Photo)
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