- 2003 "Approximate total 700,000 (2003). There are
some 700,000 children and teenagers living in state
institutions, according to Russia's Health Ministry. Some
15,000 young people graduate from the state-run orphanages
every year. And at least 40 percent of these graduates
eventually end up in prisons, while one tenth of them commit
suicide." Source: according to
Russia' Health Ministry, 2003
- 2002: About 15,000 children leave Russian
orphanages each year, once they are 16 to 18 years old. Of
these, 5,000 are unemployed, some 6,000 are homeless, around
3,000 resort to crime, approximately 1,500 commit suicide,
and roughly half the girls are forced into prostitution -
The CoMission for Children at Risk, 2002
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- 2000
orphanages, 1.5 million orphans
> source or - Russia II 1273 orphanages, 700,000
orphans, 25%
- There are many
web pages of Russian orphanages, but none of them are in
English. If I found one in English I'll publish the link.
- 1998
Approximately total - 200,000 (1998)
“Of a total of more than 600,000 children classified as
being “without parental care,” as many as one-third reside
in institutions.” Read “Cruelty and Neglect in Russian
Orphanages.” Human Rights Watch. (December 1998)
> source
Read “Kremlin Voices Concern Over Homeless Kids.”by Sergei
Blagovhttp
- Orphans in Russia - of whom 95 percent
still have a living parent - are exposed to shocking levels
of cruelty and neglect. Infants classified as disabled are
segregated into "lying-down" rooms, where they are changed
and fed but are bereft of stimulation and lacking in medical
care. From Human Rights Watch, 1998,
> source
- Of a total of more than 600,000 children
classified as being "without parental care", as many as
one-third reside in institutions, while the rest are placed
with a variety of guardians. Thousands more are temporarily
quartered in various public shelters and institutions under
police jurisdiction simply waiting for an available space in
an orphanage. From Human Rights Watch, 1998,
> source
- Thousands of children are abandoned to
the state at a rate of 113,000 a year for the past two
years, up dramatically from 67,286 in 1992. The evidence
gathered reveals several systematic disadvantages imposed on
young Russian orphans, which violate their fundamental
rights to survival and development, and place them in a
underclass., From Human Rights Watch, 1998,
> source
- No date: Russia has more than 18 million orphans and children in social risk.
- 90-95% of Russian orphans are "social orphans" which means they actually have living parents.
- Approximately 90% of orphans will end up in crime, drugs, and/or prison after "graduating" from their orphanage.
- Approximately 100,000 children come to social guardianship every year
HIV/AIDS is a growing epidemic in Russia with approximately 100 new infections every day. - Check out the source
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