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Helped by her son, a mother pulls a sled loaded with straw for their cow in the village of Konstantinovo near Ryazan, Russia, a town southwest of Moscow. Keeping animals at home in post-communist Russia is the only chance of survival for many impoverished peasants and their families.

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