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  2. Orphans in Russia - Wikipedia

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    In the 1900s, at the age of 16, children have to leave the orphanages. Approximately 15,000 children leave Russian orphanages each year, usually at the age of 16 or 17. [2] They are given housing, benefits, and a stipend, but often are not given sufficient advice or direction on how to transition into the world.

  3. Russian parliament backs ban on adoptions from countries that ...

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    The Russian parliament on Wednesday gave its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change their gender from adopting Russian children, a move ...

  4. Yale researchers hacked a Russian adoption database and ... - AOL

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    The new report uses open-source intelligence and satellite images to identify Russian government aircraft allegedly used to take away Ukrainian orphans from Russian-occupied areas of Eastern Ukraine.

  5. Orphans in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Adoption was now the favored solution to child homelessness, providing children with permanent and stable homes. [53] During the second half of the 20th century, there was a shift in Soviet law enforcement, from pure punitive and "resocialization" approach to crime prevention, which also targeted social orphanhood.

  6. List of websites blocked in Russia - Wikipedia

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    In December 2009, Russian-based Internet provider Yota, with over 100,000 subscribers [9] blocked access to some Russian opposition Internet resources for its Moscow-based subscribers for a few days. This occurred after the chief prosecutor of St. Petersburg recommended that the company prevent access to extremist resources.

  7. Comparison of BitTorrent sites - Wikipedia

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    BitTorrent sites may operate a BitTorrent tracker and are often referred to as such. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content. A directory allows users to browse the content available on a website based on various categories.

  8. Couple claims 6-year-old girl they adopted from Ukraine is ...

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    The case has drawn widespread comparisons to the 2009 film "Orphan," in which a couple adopts a 9-year-old Russian girl and later discovers she is, in fact, a 33-year-old woman who has killed at ...

  9. List of international adoption scandals - Wikipedia

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    Forced adoption in the United Kingdom removed children permanently from their parents. 1960s-1980s Highlighted by the Dutch current affairs show Zembla in 2017, purportedly 11,000 babies were fraudulently sold for adoption in the 1980s from Sri Lanka to western countries, with the use of baby farms to meet the apparent high demand. [3] [4] [5 ...