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.

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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