Moscow Children's Home #19
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Many of the residents at Children's Home #19 are the sons and daughters of migrant workers.
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Leon, who is five, is the son of an African mother and a Russian father.
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Children of mixed ethnic backgrounds are harder to place with adoptive families, according to the home's director.
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Some of the children were abandoned when one or both parents returned to their country of origin.
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11-year-old Misha was taken into care after his father, an Azeri, was convicted of a crime and deported from Russia.
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Children pray before dinner.
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Akram, 16, is planning to record a rap album. He says he's proud to be from the children's home.
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The home has placed 350 children in foster care or adoptive families in the past 15 years.
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But a new law has abolished Russia's foster system, meaning the children can only wait for adoptive parents.