I just printed some usefull information from the Russian Ministry of Education's web site. The Russian Ministry of Education stopped excepting adoption paperwork from any american adoption AGENCIES for 2 years (letter #8 from 09 April 2002). Until 09 April 2004 the adoption paperwork from an agencies will not be excepted.
www.ed.gov.ru/sch-edu/chil-s/accr03.doc