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April 04, 2012

Moscow Times: Church looks for place to put its homeless tent

by Chloe Cranston
The Moscow Times

Snow came down Tuesday, an unwelcome and unexpected April shower, the tail end of a harsh winter that has seemingly decided to never end — temperatures are predicted to go down to minus 7 degrees Celsius on Thursday night.

As every year, the least fortunate city inhabitants this winter have been the homeless, who have had to cope on the streets with a freeze that hit minus 28 degrees Celsius. Fifty homeless people in Moscow alone died of the cold, said Ilya Kuskov, manager of the Orthodox Church's homeless charity work.

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