Students from earthquake-stricken Haiti...
With winter exams under way, Haitians at the People"s Friendship University of Russia have hardly been able to focus on their studies since a powerful quake hit the country on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands are feared dead after the quake, and many more were hurt or left homeless in the impoverished Caribbean state, which is still suffering aftershocks.
Students say their phone calls home have gone largely unanswered.
"We do not know whether they are alive. I cannot sleep, cannot eat. It"s all beyond me," Fredeline Felix, a student at the international university in southwestern Moscow, said as she wiped away tears.
"It"s awful! I have a wife and a son there, he has just turned 9. I do not know where they are now," Victor Luckner Robenson said.
Mathematics department student Adlin Bedard is the only one of 52 Haitian students at the university fortunate enough to have received news about his family at home.