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2017/03/19 - 00:28 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/02/06 - 12:37 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Comparing social well-being across time or among nations is a notoriously difficult challenge, but the most universally accepted one has to do with the amount of calories a population consumes per day. When caloric intake rises, it is...
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2016/06/02 - 03:05 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
One of the most powerful ideological memes of Soviet times was the notion that capitalism divided the population of any country into “two nations,” a small one possessing all the wealth and a huge one whose production was confiscated...
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2016/05/20 - 21:48 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2015/07/03 - 20:22 •
Archive, Political News, Russia
The Russian government has in effect stopped fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS and as a result, the number of HIV infected people in the Russian Federation is rising by ten percent a year, according to Academician Vadim Pokrovsky, head of...
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2015/04/16 - 20:25 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, Russia
The number of people in Crimea identifying as ethnic Ukrainians has fallen by 232,000 between the 2001 census conducted by the Ukrainian government and the 2014 census conducted by the Russian occupation authorities, a decline that has...
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