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In today’s Russia, more than 35,000 children are waiting to be adopted. But the number of adoptions is declining every year. This is largely because foreigners have almost stopped adopting Russian children. We spoke to those adopted into Western countries back in the late 1990s, to find out how their lives turned out and what fate awaited their siblings who stayed in Russia.

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Timecodes
00:00 Why the number of adoptions in Russia is declining every year
00:32 «My father drank and my mother worked. No one was there to take care of us»
01:38 «My whole life my adoptive parents told me that I was adopted»
04:14 «I longed for maternal affection»
06:15 «My mother never said, “I love you”»
07:43 «That’s a big thing for someone that's been adopted, is you have this fear of rejection»
09:40 «Part of me was nervous to go to Russia»
12:19 «I feel sorry for my brother. He’s a person just like me»
15:25 Who affected the most from the «Dima Yakovlev law»
16:53 «There wasn't a time when I really struggled with the fact that I was adopted»
20:02 «She had to be left in an orphanage»
21:40 «Hi, looks like I’m your brother»
24:59 «My mother told me why I was given up for adoption»
26:11 Brother and sister communicate by video for the first time
28:13 «When I read on my adoption papers that I was Russian, I was confused»
29:42 «If my brother have decided to go to war, I would be shocked.»
31:35 «Don't worry, everything is fine in Russia»
34:23 «I see a positive future»