‘Rotten’ Coronavirus Rations for Poor Schoolkids Draw Russians’ Outrage

4/8/20
Local authorities across Russia are facing criticism for distributing rotten food to low-income children being home-schooled during the coronavirus lockdown. The angry parents of children qualified to receive free school meals took to social media to share their government-issued rations, exposing the economic divide between wealthier and poorer Russian regions. Here’s a brief look at the quarantine rations in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic:
Republic of Karelia - Photographs of two smoked sausages and a handful of raw potatoes intended to last children two weeks in the northwestern town of Pitkyaranta drew national media attention. “Five potatoes, two sausages, a stick of margarine, half a kilo of sugar and a kilo of flour… Parents found a beetle in one of the bags of flour,” read a message on the local community forum. Regional officials in the republic of Karelia announced Tuesday they will suspend the distributions and fire the head of the school meals provider after the photographs set off nationwide outrage.

Volgograd region - Parents in this southern region couldn’t contain their anger when they received a set of rotten potatoes, sprouted carrots and worm-infested semolina. Tyumen region - Parents in the region more than 2,000 kilometers east of Moscow criticized their 10-day rations for containing processed foods and lacking pasta and cereals. St. Petersburg - Rations in Russia’s second-largest city were reported to have contained rice or wheat groats instead of the traditional staple buckwheat, whose price jumped in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

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‘Rotten’ Coronavirus Rations for Poor Schoolkids Draw Russians’ Outrage





Moscow is Russia's city on the hill. Once beyond that metro area, poverty increases exponentially in relation to how far east one travels.

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