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The number of orphanages has increased by 100% between 2002 and 2012 to 2,176. [2] Some of the reasons for children to end up in the orphanages are domestic abuse, parental substance abuse, having lost their parents, or being found alone on the streets. [4] As for those who are social orphans there are various reasons why they end up in orphanages.
Major contributors to the population of orphans and otherwise homeless children included World War I (1914–1918), the October Revolution of November 1917 followed by the Russian Civil War (1917–1922), famines of 1921–1922 and of 1932–1933, political repression, forced migrations, and the Soviet-German War theatre (1941–1945) of World ...
Once children with disabilities in Russian orphanages turn 18, many are moved to adult closed state institutions without the consent from the young person. A Human Rights Watch study suggested that: Across five cities in Russia, 28 cases were documented of children being forcefully transferred to an adult institution once they turn 18,
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.
The Russian Children's Welfare Society is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in New York City with branches in Moscow and San Francisco.It was founded in 1926 to help Russian children whose families fled to other countries after the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
G.I. Rossolimo Boarding School No. 49 is a boarding school for orphans with mental disabilities, located in Moscow. Founded in 1873, initially known as the St. Mary's Shelter (Russian: Убежище Святой Марии, romanized: Ubyezhishchye Svatoy Mariy), [1] served as a center for research in child psychopathology under the direction of G.I. Rossolimo. [2]
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Former Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow Sofianlehto Orphanage from 1930 in Helsinki, Finland St. Nicholas Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia. An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The ...