Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended a proposed ban on Americans adopting Russian children.
At a live televised news conference Mr Putin said the bill, backed by Russian MPs on Wednesday, was "appropriate".
In US cases involving allegedly mistreated Russian children the authorities refused to let in Russian representatives as observers, he said.
The Russian bill is a response to the US Magnitsky Act, which bars entry to Russian alleged human rights violators.
It follows several cases in which Russian children have apparently been mistreated by US adoptive parents.
Mr Putin said he still needed to read the Russian bill in detail, though he backed it in principle.
The rate of adoption in Russia is low. Some 3,400 Russian children were adopted by foreign families in 2011, nearly a third of them by Americans.
"The State Duma's response may be emotional, but I consider it to be appropriate," Mr Putin said, referring to Russia's lower house.
He called the Magnitsky Act "unfriendly". The act replaced the US Jackson-Vanik amendment, which dated back to the Cold War.
"They have replaced one anti-Soviet, anti-Russian law with another... That is very bad. This, of course, in itself poisons our relations," Mr Putin said.
'Positive signals' from GeorgiaWhen asked about relations with Georgia, Mr Putin said he had seen "positive signals, very restrained so far" from the new coalition government led by Bidzina Ivanishvili, opposed to President Mikheil Saakashvili.
He welcomed Georgia's appointment of a special representative to mend relations with Russia, and said: "We have responded in kind."
But Russia would not revoke its recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent, he said. Russian forces came to the aid of pro-Moscow separatists in the two breakaway regions after clashes with Mr Saakashvili's forces in 2008.
Mr Putin accused President Saakashvili of leading the bilateral relationship into a "dead end". Mr Saakashvili is expected to step down next October.
Mr Putin, who is 60, also dismissed media reports about his alleged health problems.
"This is of benefit to political opponents, who are trying to question either the legitimacy or the capability of the authorities," he said.
"I can give a traditional answer to the question about my health - keep on dreaming."
Last month there were reports that Mr Putin, a keen sportsman, was suffering from a bad back.
A questioner from the Izvestiya newspaper asked him about his "authoritarian style".
Mr Putin denied that his system was authoritarian, saying that if that were the case he would have made changes to the constitution. He pointed out that he had taken on the role of prime minister after two presidential terms.
"I cannot call this system authoritarian, I cannot agree with this," he said. "If I considered a totalitarian or authoritarian system preferable, I would simply have changed the constitution, it was easy enough to do."
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