Russian teen, 17, adopted by American couple five years ago RETURNS to Russia after argument with new parents

A teenager adopted by an American couple when he was 12 has retued to Russia claiming that his parents treated him badly, according to Russian media reports.

Alexander Abnosov, 17, retued from a Philadelphia suburb to his 72-year-old grandmother in the Volga river city of Cheboksary.

In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia's best-selling daily, Abnosov complained that his adoptive mother 'was yelling at me for every small thing'.

The teenager said, however, that he was on good terms with his adoptive father, who gave him $500 toward the plane ticket back to Russia.

The Russian govement in December passed a ban on all American adoptions of Russian children in retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting alleged Russian human-rights violators.

Its passage has been accompanied by a fierce campaign in state media dwelling on what they described as numerous cases of parental cruelty to adopted Russian children in the United States.

Some 60,000 children have been adopted by Americans in the past two decades.

Abnosov's grandmother told the Rossiya television channel for a segment that aired on Tuesday that she was refused custody of her grandson after the boy's alcoholic father died five years ago.

'I've been asking them to give me the boy,' she said, referring to child welfare officials. 'But I was very ill then, and they told me I was too old and ill to raise him.'

Abnosov said in the newspaper interview that he had left home for Philadelphia after an argument with his American parents, but that they tued him away when he eventually came back.

It was not clear when the boy flew back to Russia.

Max Shatto was just three-years-old when he died in January under the care of his adoptive American parents Alan and Laura Shatto.

Though a judge ruled earlier this month that the couple would not be charged with his death, which medical examiners said was accidental, despite bruises being found on the tot's body.