The initiative is a bill than bans Americans from adopting Russian children.
When it was proposed, law makers cited nineteen cases of Russian adoptees dying, in the US, including Dima Yakovlev.
President Putin is expected to sign it into law, as last week he spoke in support of the initiative.
It is the second part of Russia's strike back at the US for the Magnitsky Act.
Under the Magnitsky Act a visa ban was implaced on Russian officials, believed to be responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky, it also placed a freeze on their financial assets.
Last Friday, Russia's lower house, the Duma, passed the anti-Magnitsky Act, which blocked certain US citizens from entering Russia or adopting Russian children.
Over a hundred thousand Russians signed a petition against the passage of the anti-Magnitsky Act.
The passage of the Yakovleve Initiative has already, and will continue to, received backlash from the international community.
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