We adopted our youngest in Russia in 1997. That was 15 years before adoptions were ended, so granted, I was out of the loop. Grueling process, took two years. No child was in an orphanage for a happy reason, and there is a stigma attached to children in orphanages, or there was then. We were asked in court if we minded that our daughter didn't come from a "good family". We were kind of taken aback and our answer was that it wasn't the fault of the child if she didn't come from a respectable family.
God bless you. Lots of times Russian adoption wasn’t to actually people who could and wanted to be parents to a child in need. The russians stopped it because of the abuse and trafficking in kids it brought about and not just here.
Russia stopped US adoptions because of homos. I used to run a ping list and I saw lots and lots of news.