Many disabled people face poor provision of facilities, and disabled children are commonly institutionalized,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] even though Russia is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, having signed the treaty on 24 September 2008, and ratified it four years later, on 25 September 2012.
[8] In the Pre-Soviet era, Commissariats for Invalid Welfare were responsible for services for disabled people.
In March 1921, 775,000 wooden arms and legs for disabled soldiers were produced.
[9] Russia has competed at the Paralympic Games as different nations in its history: as part of the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer and Winter Games; after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia competed as part of the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Paralympics; they competed for a first time as Russia at the 1994 Winter Paralympics and since then in all the summer and winter games.
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