Alex Gilbert was adopted by a New Zealand couple in 1994 from the Arkhangelsk orphanage in Russia. In 2013 he travelled to Russia to meet his birth parents for the first time, after using social media to find his mother. His journey was captured in a TV documentary. Now a new documentary follows his quest to find another family member - his grandmother. Alex speaks to Jesse.
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