Correspondent in Moscow
“Currently, I can't find a job. Usually, I am hired on construction sites, but in winter it is more difficult. And in stores, prices keep going up. ”
Raf, 55, pushes the gate of St. James's Church, near Kursk station in northeast Moscow.
Like this seasonal worker on the threshold of extreme poverty, they are around eighty each day to come to seek a little help and human warmth from an Orthodox association.
This, with the blessing of the priests, has been running a small social center for several years: a simple prefabricated cabin at the foot of the church crowned with its snow-capped bulbs.
Raf is from Volgograd, the ex-Stalingrad, and has luckily found a bed in a hostel - the nighttime temperature is approaching minus 25 degrees these days in Moscow.
But he lives on a wire, without knowing what tomorrow will bring.
Through a small counter, he and his unfortunate accomplices receive a tea, a
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