Tatyana Voltskaya is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Officially, Russia has no soldiers in Ukraine. But it does have volunteers -- hundreds of men and women eager to take up arms in defense of "Novorossia." And the Kremlin's got no problem with that.
As Russia's economic crisis continues to drive up food prices, middle-class Russians are suddenly confronting hard choices at the supermarket. RFE/RL talks to residents in St. Petersburg, Samara, and other Russian cities about their dwindling mealtime options.
Russia's decision to bar Americans from adopting Russian children has prevented more than 250 orphans from being united with their prospective families in the United States. Two years on, RFE/RL was able to track down some of these children.
