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It is nearly impossible to estimate how many homeless children are living in Russia nationwide. As Rick Hiebert concedes in his article “A New Russian Revolution,” the country has as many as “two million street kids nationwide.” This number includes not only really homeless and abandoned children, but children who run away from their homes and parents who lack their parental responsibilities. The sorrowful position of children in Russia, being the result of an unsatisfactory situation in this country in general, including decline of living standards, crisis of the family institution, growth of unemployment, and negligence of laws is a serious threat to the country’s future. Since the Soviet collapse, the economic crisis and legal chaos has brought problems of child neglect out into the open. It is painful to watch ragged children, begging for money in the subway trains or on the street corners. Then, after the “work,” they ga