Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar. 7 -- For the first time since Putin came to power, foreigners were not able to adopt a single Russian child , according to statistics from the Russian Ministry of Enlightenent, the result of Moscow's efforts to restrict such adoptions by closing adoption agencies and introducing new limits and thus help maintain the Russian population (edu.gov.ru/activity/statistics/guardianship).
This ends a 30-year-long period following the collapse of the Soviet Union during which foreigners adopted more than 100,000 Russian children (forbes.ru/forbeslife/525008-s-1993-goda-inostrancy-usynovili-bolee-100-000-detej-sirot-iz-rossii). But Russian parents did not pick up the slack and continued to adopt fewer children than they did earlier.
With each passing year, the Important Stories portal reports, Russians have adoped a smaller percentage of orphans. Last year, of every 100 children in childcare facilities, only 76 were adopted, the lowest level in the last 17 years (istories.media/stories/2025/03/07/2024-god-stal-pervim-kogda-inostrantsi-ne-usinovili-ni-odnogo-rebenka-iz-rossii/).
Still more troubling, those who did adopt were more ready to return such children back to childcare institutions. In 2014-2014, Russians returned to orphanages nine of every 100 they had earlier adopted, but in 2024, that figure almost doubled to 16, as economic conditions and prospects have worsened.
And still worse for the young Russians confined in that country's often notorious children's homes is that the data base listing those who want to adopt has fallen by a third from a decade ago to 40,000 (istories.media/investigations/2020/06/01/po-zakonu-podletsov/).
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