When Nina had a sick child, the only right decision seemed to her to send him to an orphanage. As they explained to her, there the girl will be able to count on free medical care and at least somehow live. She gave Tanya to Orphanage No. 3 in St. Petersburg, and ...

The daughter of three-time Olympic figure skating champion and State Duma deputy Irina Rodnina, journalist Alena Minkovskaya writes: “Peter Martins should be fired from the New York City Ballet after numerous allegations of physical, verbal and sexual abuse.” This post was made after an interview with...

In December 2012, the Morris family from the American city of San Diego did not have enough days to complete the adoption of the Russian girl Lera with Down syndrome - the “Dima Yakovlev law” came into force, prohibiting US citizens from adopting children from Russia. The Morrises, as well as about 30 other families, found themselves in a similar ...

At the end of December, it will be 5 years since the adoption of the “Dima Yakovlev Law” in Russia, which banned the adoption of Russian children by US citizens. Before this, according to official statistics, since 1999, more than 46 thousand children from Russia have found new families in America.…

The Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of Russia Pavel Astakhov will leave his post upon returning from vacation, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. “He is leaving this position of his own free will,” Peskov said. Last week, some Russian officials reported Astakhov’s impending resignation...