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Baby boom drives plot for toy story

April 2, 2012 Anna Krachenko, Ben Aris
Burgeoning birth rate helps fuel huge growth in the children’s goods sector

Dance to Live

January 27, 2012 Svetlana Smetanina
Anyone can dance, even people with disabilities, as the staff of the Spiritualization Rehabilitation Center [Centre Odukhotvorenie, in Russian] have proven. Moreover, this “dance therapy” has a positive therapeutic effect

New technology aids adoption process

January 25, 2012 Anastasia Reznichenko, Itogi
A new system for matching potential parents with children awaiting adoption has turned out to be significantly more effective than traditional methods

Russian for immigrants

January 25, 2012 Alesya Lonskaya, Russky Reporter
There are 70,000 children of immigrants, most of them with little knowledge of Russian, attending school in Moscow

Preschool children adjust to vegetarianism

January 3, 2012 Natalya Radulova
Some are born vegetarian, some become vegetarian, and some have vegetarianism thrust upon them

A child adjusts to a new family

December 9, 2011 Yulia Gutova, Russian Reporter
A Russian adoptive mother discusses the process of integrating a new child into her family

The Orphan Factory

November 21, 2011 Boris Altshuler
In Russia, there is a widespread trend of separating children from parents, much more so than in other countries. The rights of troubled parents are signed away with relative ease. Their children are known as social orphans

Russia raises eyebrows at U.S. adoption decision

November 21, 2011 Pavel Koshkin
Russia views the latest U.S. court sentence handed down to an American couple guilty of killing their adopted Russian son as too light. Will it affect the progress that the United States and Russia have made on regulating international adoptions?

A Disneyland in Kaliningrad?

August 10, 2011 Nikita Dulnev
Local officials announce plans to build a theme park in Russia's exclave

Rites of passage: California twins return to Russia where they were born

July 15, 2011 Veronika Dorman
On their first return since they left Moscow's Orphanage No. 13 sixteen years ago, Jennifer and Jessica Allen exclaim, in unison: “It’s so awesome... that we’re from here!”

Bigger families to be given free land

June 30, 2011 Inna Leonova
As the number of childless couples grows, parents are being offered an incentive to defy the Soviet stigma surrounding larger families