I picked up an interesting piece on adoption today from Newslab, a Russian wire service that focuses on news in Sibera. The news it reported is both bad and good.

The story says that 34 children were adopted by foreign citizens in the region of Krasnoyarsk for 2007, down from 180 for 2006 and 168 for 2005. That is, unfortunately pretty much in keeping with the larger nationwide slowdown in inter-country adoptions, which I wrote about back in December when I... more

Where is it? Krasnoyarsk Krai is an enormous territory in Siberia that stretches from the Arctic Ocean almost to Russia's southern border with Mongolia. It is in its own time zone, and four hours ahead of Moscow. You can find the current local time here.

What's the biggest city? Krasnoyarsk, which is located toward the territory's southern end. The city's population was 909,341 as of the 2002 census, out of some 3 million... more