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RUSSIAN NEWS VIDEOS ON KOLYA EMELYATSEV AND DMITRY YAKOLEV/CHASE HARRISON

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Last week I found a great Russian blog: Russian Videos from Russia hosted by Svet and Kyle Keeton in Moscow. For an expat in need of a daily dose of real life Russia, this is an ideal site. Documentaries, cartoons, liturgy, Soviet pop, ducks–they’ve got it all. I added Svet and Kyle to my Blog Catalog as a “friend” and linked their blog to this page. Over the weekend, much to my surprise Svet and Kyle posted some Russian news videos about the Kolya Emelyantsev and Dmitry Yakolev/Chase Harrison cases as well as a story on Russian domestic adoption. If you look quick you’ll see a possibly heretofore unpublished picture of Viktoria Bezhenova/Nina Hilt in the video (1/1). The videos are in English or with an English voice over. There is also a link to a new Russian advertising campaign encouraging domestic adoption. There’s no separate URL for the videos, just scroll down to July 27, 2008. большое спасибо

EUROPEAN ADOPTION CONSULTANTS: LIVING LARGE OFF THE MISERY OF OTHERS

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Curious minds wonder. Just how much does European Adoption Consultants, the placing agency of two Russian children who ended up dead at the hands of their Forever Families,* rake in each year? Since I’m not an accountant, I’m not going to pretend to interpret their IRS 990s, available on Guidestar (free registration required). There’s a lot more than these figures: salaries, expenses, inventory. Perhaps somebody else can elaborate. In the meantime, here’s a sample: GROSS 2004: $7,568,621 2005: $8,197,469 (adjusted to $8,257,994 on 2006 990 form)2006: $ 7,809,150TOTAL: $23,565,240 (adjusted to $23,635,765) NET ASSETS AND DEFERRED BALANCES2004: $890,593 2005: $1,044,505 2006: $890,141TOTAL: $2,835,229 EAC Director Margaret Cole-Hughes’ salary:2004: $194,000 + $70,000 in benefits and deferred compensation2005: $194,0002006: $194,000TOTAL: $582,000+70,000 I guess the day of the kindly but poor social worker played by Beulah Bondi has gone the way of…well…Beulah Bondi. EAC is a Hague Accredited by the Council for Accreditation, It is a member of The Joint Council on International Children’s Services and the National Council for Adoption. *Logan Higginbotham, November 25, 1998Dmitry Yakolev/Chase Harrison, July 8, 2008