Woman gets gifts from hometown in Russia

A 90-year-old woman from the village of Vahevo in northern Russia's Vologda Oblast received on Wednesday photographs and letters written by children from her hometown, which she has not returned to for 83 years.

Born in the former Soviet Union in December 1926, Liu Molan, whose Russian name is Nina, moved to China with her family when she was 7 years old. Her father is Chinese, and met Nina's mother, a Russian, while doing business in the Soviet Union.

Nina lived with her family in Ili, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. At age 17, she married Liu Chunshu, a Chinese man who was 20 years older than her. Liu gave Nina the Chinese name Molan, meaning orchid, which she has used ever since.