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Another angle you might pursue is the orphanage angle, and what happens to the children in orphanages who aren't adopted, and why there are so many children in orphanages there.

One thing I remember from traveling over there was just the most absurd, irrational thing I'd ever heard of. We were really cold, it was September, and I mentioned it to our hostess, and she apologized, but said they hadn't turned the heat on downtown yet. (Moscow) Apparently, they pipe heat the way we do water - and they turn it on in October. The closer you are to the center of town the warmer your apartment is, so she said, and the further away from downtown, the colder it is. Writing this now it's still hard to believe, but watching Obama, suddenly it seems that bureaucrats really can be that clueless.