Moscow, 13 feb ( EFE).-one of every five adolescents Russian suffers depression paintings, he revealed the report “Analysis of the situation of children in the Russian Federation published today by UNICEF.

“The 20 percent of Russian Teens suffer from depression, while in Western countries are not more than 5 percent”, underlines the report.

According to the body of the UN that works to ensure and promote the rights of children, the current Russia registered an alarming growth of psychic disorders and behavior among children and adolescents, and also these mortality.

“The figure exceeds in 3-5 times the records of most of the European countries and in the majority of cases (75 per cent) deaths are the result of shock and poisoning accidents”, explains UNICEF.

A teenager of 16 years died today to precipitate from the roof of a building’s height in the city of Rostov of Don in an act of suicide, according to preliminary data of the Russian police.

In the Rostov of Don region, in the South of Russia, 24 adolescents were removed life last year, according to official data, and other 28 tried unsuccessfully.

The UNICEF report coincides with the general astonishment of Russia to spectacular growth of suicides among adolescents in the last months.

As the defender of the minor, Pavel Astájov, thousands of children are trying to remove the life in Russia every year and many do.