This is an interesting article from today's Moscow Times on an initiative to start a foster care program in Russia:
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2005/11/10/010.html
I found it curious that a Russian woman who wanted to adopt encountered too much red tape ...that makes no sense.
I am glad to see, though, that some children are finally finding a way out of the orphanages in to a family situation....