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One-year-old Russian girl Anya, one of 17 children kept in an orphanage, looks at a nurse in St.Petersburg
Wednesday, May. 05, 2010

Open quoteSpecialists call such a boom in returns a humanitarian catastrophe.Close quote

  • YELENA MIZULINA
  • of Russia's parliamentary committee on family and children, noting, after the uproar following the return of a boy to Moscow by his adoptive U.S. mother, that Russian families have sent 30,000 adopted children back to institutions since 2007
Photo: Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters | Source: NYT