Completing the B Ring

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Completing the B Ring

01 Sep 2010 | Mircea Dan Opris

I finally managed to close the B Ring, after almost five months of travel and research. And what do you think the “B Ring” is? A network of cities and places I traveled across this summer. Surprisingly, when I started my research into child-trafficking networks, international adoptions and political lobbies, I thought I knew almost everything about these things. I would find out so many new things and so much information never revealed before about the fate of lost children, abandoned children and children born outside their parents’ native countries.
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Completing the B Ring

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Completing the B Ring

01 Sep 2010 | Mircea Dan Opris

I finally managed to close the B Ring, after almost five months of travel and research. And what do you think the “B Ring” is? A network of cities and places I traveled across this summer. Surprisingly, when I started my research into child-trafficking networks, international adoptions and political lobbies, I thought I knew almost everything about these things. I would find out so many new things and so much information never revealed before about the fate of lost children, abandoned children and children born outside their parents’ native countries.
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Ivan Angelovski

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Ivan Angelovski

Ivan Angelovski, from Serbia, is a freelance journalist currently engaged, amongst other projects, at B92, on the  the Potraga TV programme  which aims to help families in their search for missing persons in Serbia and the former Yugoslav republics. Read more

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