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Riding like daredevils 23.10.2007, 06:11

Riding towards a better life

There are more than 700,000 abandoned children in Russia. In the village of Vereshchagino near Perm the church is offering them not only bread and shelter but also guidance and counselling.

Russian orphans 07.11.2007, 07:50

Orphaned & abandoned children want second chance

Three quarters of a million children in Russia are orphaned or abandoned. Some find homes with relatives, while around a third live in state institutions. But perhaps the luckiest are those who find new homes with loving families willing to give them a fr

Blue blood... Anya Bazanova 12.11.2008, 07:39 2 comments

Russian girl learns she's an African princess

It's the stuff of fairytales and fantasies. Shakespeare dabbled with it too. An abandoned orphan girl discovers she's a princess after all. But for one girl from a remote Russian village, fact became stranger than fiction.

29.11.2008, 07:38

Battle to cut baby death rates

Population decline has been a problem in Russia for decades. Government has put in place a range of initiatives to reverse the downward demographic trend. Among them is a key programme to lower infant mortality rates.

Unlucky orphan trapped in red tape

Published: 28 November, 2008, 06:28


An orphan in Siberia has suffered a double blow. Not only has he no parents – but now he has been stripped of a nationality. Murat, not yet two, was abandoned by his Uzbek mother. Later he was given Russian citizenship. But this has been revoke

 
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