Before Russia's war on Ukraine began, Kira Obedinsky was a joyful, loved 12-year-old girl. Now orphaned, injured and alone in a Russian-controlled hospital in eastern Ukraine, she has become an ...

The Russian boy sent back to his homeland by his adoptive U.S. mother two years ago might have finally gotten a break. Torry Ann Hansen put Artyom Savelyev on a plane with a note saying he had "severe ...

Tatyana McFadden, 23, Clarksville is a paralympian with spina bifida. She was adopted from an Russian orphanage at age 6 and is fighting the Russian government to continue to allow Americans to adopt ...

Seventeen years after they shared a crib in a crowded Russian orphanage, two boys who were adopted by families in the U.S. will share a stage as they graduate from high school together. Joe Mather and ...

The occupation authorities are threatening parents in Volnovakha district in Donetsk Oblast who have not sent their children to a school that follows the Russian curriculum with taking them away and ...

Passing a new bill in Russia has never presented much of a problem for President Vladimir Putin. With perpetual control of both houses of parliament and a couple of loyalist “opposition” parties to ...

Several families of Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia on Monday sounded the alarm about their fate, saying all contact had been cut off, as they called for international support. During a ...

The June 19 front-page story "Russian Adoptions Orphaned by State" was of great interest, given that my wife and I had returned to Maryland from Russia two days earlier with our newly adopted children ...

The blowback against Russia’s ban on American adoptions has taken many forms over the past few weeks, ever since President Vladimir Putin made it illegal as of this month for U.S. families to give ...

As they cruised the Volga River between Moscow and St. Petersburg last month, Jim Koehler, Davenport, and his 18-year-old grandson, Max Rollins, also of Davenport, had time to reminisce about the ...

It is a life of deafening silence, colourless walls, and empty corridors, a life of intense longing and disappointment. For over 600,000 children living in Russian orphanages waiting to be adopted, it ...