People carry a posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the words reading "For Russia without Herod!" during a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Some thousands of people ...

RUSSIA — In a new campaign to increase adoption of its estimated 700,000 orphans, the Russian government this month started airing national TV advertisements and launched a website with 180,000 ...

A political controversy is causing heartbreak for families ready to adopt orphans from Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he plans to sign a bill that would bar Americans from adopting ...

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The Russian boy sent back to his homeland by his adoptive U.S. mother two years ago might have finally gotten a break. Torry Ann Hansen put Artyom Savelyev on a plane with a note saying he had "severe ...

This is a joint report by two divisions of Human Rights Watch: the Children's Rights and the Europe and Central Asia Divisions. It was researched and written by Kathleen Hunt, a consultant to Human ...

The plight of orphans in Russia was the topic of conversation last week when a top Russian educator met in Tulsa with Americans who work with orphans in the former Soviet Union. Mikhail Koreshkov, ...