Russia - Red Cross appeal for Russian poor

T/I: 10:38:28 The International Red Cross has launched an appeal for funds to help Russia’s poor; it fears that the approaching winter might see record deaths and suffering across the country. Institutions such as the Red Cross’s Shelter for Homeless Children in Moscow are already under severe pressure. At a UNICEF conference in Moscow on Friday (October 17), the wife of President Yeltsin, Naina, put some of the blame for the situation on quarrelling politicians, but she claimed that the conditions o