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In Rome, although the TF office has been closed for some time, the Tolstoy Foundation continues to provide modest assistance to refugees and immigrants. The former director of TF's Rome office, Marina Khvostoff-Lombardi, continues to work closely with the small Russian community in Rome. She is able to collect warm clothing, to find employment and training opportunities and to provide some immigration counseling to the neediest refugees from the former Soviet Union. She cannot possibly help all the people who continually seek her assistance. Insufficient funds and strict Italian immigration laws make this virtually impossible. However, thanks to Mrs. Lombardi's perseverance, some cases may indeed have a happy ending.