New Delhi, June 15 -- MOSCOW - The children were placed with American families years before the adoption ban took effect, handed across borders under a program that was once the largest of its kind between the two countries. More than a decade later, Moscow says it still has no idea how most of them are living.

it accuses the State Department of ignoring every appeal from the Russian Embassy requesting investigations into restrictions on Russian journalists working on American soil.

The two complaints, bundled together in a document framed as a counter-report to Western human rights indices, land on the same day that Moscow and Minsk formally presented the report to international audiences at the United Nations and OSCE. Their timing is...