How do children from Russia live in the USA?

Polina Philbin.
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Since 1991, over 60 thousands of orphans from Russia and the former Soviet republics have been adopted in the United States.

About how they live now, told the publication “Voice of America".

Over the years of work of the American adoption agencies, many children have become not only successful and happy adults, but also members of large friendly families.

Lilia with her sister Polina arrived in Pennsylvania from the Smolensk orphanage 16 years ago. The arrival was supposed to be temporary, only for the summer holidays. Children were placed in American families who expressed a desire to accept them for several months.

Many of them were adopted as a result, and Lily and Pauline were among the lucky ones. Polina, who was then 15, was sent to the 10 class of the American school, where there were never children from Russia, so it was not easy for her to get used to.

“It was very difficult at school, because all the children talked to us, but we didn’t understand them at all. My sister and I took extra classes in English, watched videos and movies every day, and talked to each other. Our mother, who adopted us, said that we were not allowed to speak Russian anywhere, only in the toilet and in our room. She did not allow us to speak Russian. Therefore, we always spoke English, even if we couldn’t explain something, she forced us, advised us to look up the word in the dictionary,” said Polina Philbin.

Two years later, the children mastered the language.

“We wanted to go to college, so we crammed and got into college, we wanted to find a job, and we found it. It seems to me that this is not very difficult,” admitted Polina.

Now the woman works in a law office, and her life is no different from the life of those born in the USA.

“I travel a lot around America, every weekend I go to Philadelphia, Atlantic City, to the beach. With my sister, alone or with girlfriends, I travel constantly,” said Polina.

In Russia, after the death of her father, Polina’s mother practically did not live at home, leaving five children to themselves. The guardianship bodies deprived the mother of parental rights and sent all the children to boarding school, and then to the orphanage “Nest”, from which, thanks to trips abroad, they were adopted.

The best girlfriend Polina from the orphanage was also adopted and lives two hours away, women are often seen.

“She is married, with a small daughter. And about five or six girls from our orphanage live not far from us, we constantly communicate with them,” shared Polina.

Her biological mother and elder brother, who remained in Smolensk, live their own lives; the two older sisters adopted families from Australia.

In 2012, the Russian government banned the adoption of children from Russia by Americans.

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