"Two Olympic victories, the hockey and Crimea," said Trifonova, referring to the Russian team's victories in the Winter Olympics and paralympics held in Sochi earlier this year, as well as in the recent ice hockey world championships, and the annexation by Moscow of the Crimea peninsula.
But I do think without some action, if we have a hard winter, which is quite likely, there are many people this winter who are going to have to to chose between keeping warm and eating.
If you had a few ignorant people out riding across the winter corn, you'd shout at them".
In winter the tribe live in the desert, running a luxury camp (desertcampmorocco.com).
Some, like the Solomon's seal whose snake-like shoots we found forcing their way through the silt left by winter floods, may well be relicts from gardens of water mills that disappeared long ago.
Eva Clarke continues the story of her mother's survival, and her own birth, to a rapt young audience, after which we drive through late winter sun to Eva's home in Cambridge, to which her mother recently moved from Cardiff.
National Grid has moved to reassure households and businesses it will have enough power supply even in a cold winter after a spate of fires and power plant closures helped to cut spare capacity to an eight-year low.
It's known as a winter sports destination, but savvy travellers head to Switzerland's Engadine in autumn, when the larches turn golden, the skies are ice blue and there's a dusting of snow on the mountaintops.
The bowling attack will hope a winter of white-ball woe can turn around once they get a red cherry back in their hands in the Caribbean.
Because it is deciduous, sunlight in winter is maximised.
Over the winter of 1937, Japanese troops in Nanjing unleashed a relentless onslaught of looting, burning, torture and murder.
