Paul Goble
Vienna, February 21 – While few people in Russia are starving, many are not getting the vitamins and minerals they need because, as a result of declining incomes, they are forced to stop purchasing fruits, vegetables, and meat, something officials do not want to discuss but that experts say constitutes "hidden hunger” among many groups in the population.
In an article on the "Krestyanskiye vedomosti” portal, Ilya Dashkovsky says that even those who heatedly deny that there is real hunger in Russia – something many experts say exists as well – "do not deny that Russians are not getting a large amount of necessary vitamins and microelements (www.agronews.ru/newsshow.php?NId=57409).
For example, he points out, medical specialists say that Russians should be consuming on average 22 kilograms of fish every year but that they are in fact eating only 13 kilograms, with many groups, including pensioners, the 24.5 million officially poor, and the residents ...
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