Would a freeze of US-Russia adoptions over case of 7 year old boy be too extreme?

No...it's not too extreme. Seems to me, even ONE case (and there are more than one) is grounds for suspension and review of what is going wrong. This case isn't about one child...it's about an entire system that let this boy down. From the orphanage to the social agencies to the "parent" etc... all the way to the airline all the way to the governments involved. I would add that I suspect it really started before that but since I do not know the specific circumstances of why he was placed for adoption in Russia by his mom in the first place, I can't say for sure. My gut tells me she also fell through the cracks. So...not extreme. That boy has put a face to what is clearly a flawed program. We shouldn't need a series of occurrences to support fixing it. One is too many.

"Successful" for whom?

Not too extreme at all - extreme would be doing what *I* think should be done and stopping all adoptions all over the world until the mess that is currently Adoption gets cleaned up and sorted out so that it goes back to being For The Good Of The Children - since that's what it's s'posed to be about.

This was not the only one case. It was the last drop. There were more accidents when Russian children end up dead in the USA. And I'd say the probability to die in the USA for the Russian children is much higher than in any other place. May be it is some kind of Nazi behavior of the Americans toward Russians. For example see here:

It isn't only the Hansen family though, there have been several cases of children who were abused or killed here after being adopted from Russia. This indicates to me that it is resonable for Russia to freeze adoptions, at least until they can find a more accurate way to screen prospective parents.

No, in fact, I just wish other countries would do the same and force America to look at is huge unethical practises in adoption. I don't get why everyone is so surprised about what happened to this poor child; I am so used to hearing appalling stories like this and worse coming out about adoption... maybe one day something extreme enough will happen and change will finally occur. Until then, more and more children will suffer as adults play with their lives.

Looking at another answer, I also seem to recall a case of some poor russian kid dying in a hot car because his adoptive father forgot about him...

What is so "successful" for a child to grow up in a foreign heritage and without the ability to pass on the distinct values of culture? Freezing adoption is a must because it's not natural and because it's turned into a market.

No, I do not think it is extreme to freeze adoptions until they have figured out a better way to track adoptees. This was a last straw after 3 deaths of Russian children. Currently, it's in their interest to blame the a-parent. At the same time, there needs to be some protections for adoptive parents. It is clear that the Russian authorities are withholding information about some of these children and giving them to a-parents who have NO CLUE or training on how to deal with such emotionally troubled children. As another poster says, why does the Russian program have so many disruptions? I DON'T think it has to do with the selection process of the a-parents as they are generally more strict than most of the other programs. See the story at the link below. What we didn't know until yesterday is that the 14 year old was adopted from Russia as a toddler and who became very dangerous. He was like this while still quite young. The parents exhausted their finances trying to get help for him and eventually gave up their rights to the child to the state. He was returned by 2 couples who were considering adopting him due to violence. He even tried to poison one of his prospective adoptive fathers.