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MOSCOW — It’s akin to Turkey at Thanksgiving: On New Year’s in Russia, revelers traditionally consume lashings of Olivier salad. And while workers from every industry have volunteered or been called up to serve in Ukraine, farming has been among the worst affected. “Everything’s getting more expensive — bread, meat, vegetables, fruit,” Svetlana Govorukhina told NBC News in a telephone interview earlier this month. Prices “bounced back a bit later, but since then everything has rather been getting more and more expensive,” she said. I can afford caviar, but not crab meat, though it is now hard to find a good one,” she said.

Persons: Olivier, Lucien Olivier, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Koshelev, Rosstat, Everything’s, Svetlana Govorukhina, “, Putin, Tatiana Stanovaya, Anna, ” Anna, ”, Russia’s, ” Alex Brideau, Natalia Kolesnikova, Govorukhina, ” Lena Medvedeva, Henry Austin Organizations: MOSCOW, Getty, NBC, NBC News, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Eurasia Group Locations: Turkey, Year’s, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Rosstat, Kaluga, Moscow, Berlin, New York, AFP, London

MOSCOW — Russian authorities on Thursday closed all four of Moscow's airports, plus a fifth one in a city about 100 miles southwest of the country's capital, citing unspecified safety concerns. All four Moscow airports reopened after being briefly closed with the fifth airport, in Kaluga, around 100 miles from Moscow reopening later on Thursday afternoon. Sirens were also reported in the Russian city of Taganrog, located in Rostov, which borders Ukraine, according to Tangaron authorities in a post to Telegram. A third Ukrainian missile was shot down in Kursk shortly after Moscow's airports reopened, officials said. There is growing speculation that Russian air defenses may be behind the crash as Chechnya was being attacked by drones when the plane approached Grozny, its destination.

Persons: “, Rosaviatsia, Vladimir Putin, ”, Matthew Borie, Lena Medvedeva, Hannah Peart Organizations: “ Aircraft, Ukrainian, Telegram, Kremlin, Azerbaijan Airlines, NBC News Locations: MOSCOW, Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Zhukovsky, Kaluga, Ukraine, Russia, Oryol, Sevastopol, Crimea, Russian, Taganrog, Rostov, Kursk, Ukrainian, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Grozny, London

A passenger plane carrying 67 people crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning after colliding with birds while traveling from Azerbaijan to Russia, authorities said. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and five crew members on board, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry said in a post on Telegram. The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing approximately 1.8 miles away from the city of Aktau, according to a statement released on Telegram by Azerbaijan Airlines. The investigation is ongoing and additional information regarding the incident will be provided, Azerbaijan Airlines said in a statement released on Telegram. Chechnyan leader Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased passengers in a post on his Telegram account on Wednesday morning.

Persons: Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev, “, ” Peskov, Aliyev, Ramzan Kadyrov Organizations: Azerbaijan Airlines, RIA Novosti, Kazakh Ministry of Transport, Embraer Locations: Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Aktau, Baku, Grozny, Russia's Chechnya, Russian, Makhachkala, Gronzny, St, Petersburg

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