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Since 1992, American couples have adopted over 400 orphans from Russia's St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13 (a green three-storey building across the canal) alone. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Orphans with serious mental diseases are taken good care of at Russia's St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured December 20, 2012, in Moscow, said that he intends to sign the so called anti-Magnitsky law which will prohibit Russian orphans to be adopted by U.S. families. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Chief Doctor Natalia Nikiforova shows the Nagels family album she had to finally take away from Timofey, a resident of Baby Home No. 13 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Lunch time at St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13. Here, Timofey, front, has enjoyed his soup, September 21, 2012. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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A nurse at St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13 is trying to comfort Nicolas, a two-year-old boy with Butterfly Syndrome, September 21, 2012. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Yana, a resident at St. Petersburg Baby Home No.13, has narrowly missed her chance to be adopted by a U.S. couple. The Kremlin legislation banned adoption. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Sandra Usuaga and her partner Aldair Palacios, who earlier this month demobilized from the ranks of the 57th Front of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) say they were tired of war and looking forward to returning to normal life. (Chris Kraul/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Reinel Usuga is a former squad commander for the FARC rebels in Colombia, but he quit saying the group is a lost cause and is outmatched by government forces. He is undergoing a three-month demobilization course at the defense ministry in Bogota, Colombia. (Chris Kraul/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Nancy Warren, Great Lakes Regional Director of the National Wolfwatcher Coalition, is seen in her home in the Upper Peninsula city of Ewen, Michigan, May 13, 2013. Warren opposes the state law signed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to allow hunting wolves in the Upper Peninsula. "We haven't seen the data to support how conflicts are going to be...
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Farmer John Koski stands near a bumper sticker that was given to him on the back of his truck while talking about how he has had to deal with wolves attacking cattle on his farm in Matchwood, Michigan, May 13, 2013. (Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press/MCT)
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Farmer John Koski holds his rifle while standing near cattle grazing at his Matchwood, Michigan farm. Koski has had the most cattle lost of any farmer in Michigan to wolves. Koski has been given a Wolf Damage Control Permit by the Department of Natural Resources that allows him to kill up to three wolves on sight at his Matchwood farm. (Ryan...