Block busters: how Russia flouts sanctions
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the West has deployed massive economic restrictions on Russian trade. So why is Russia’s economy growing? A survivor’s story from the forgotten conflict in Sudan (10:47). And Turkey tries to rid its streets of stray dogs (17:56).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host Rosie Blore. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. Sudan is the world's |
| 0:55.0 | Sudan is the world's largest conflict |
| 1:00.0 | now enveloped in multiple wars. |
| 1:03.0 | Today we bring you the story of one survivor |
| 1:06.0 | and ask who, if anyone, might be able to help bring peace to this forgotten country. |
| 1:17.0 | And stray dogs are a feature of life in Turkey. Now a new law aims to clean up the streets. Our correspondent visited an animal clinic to |
| 1:21.6 | see how it and other shelters might cope with the influx. First up though, though. |
| 1:40.0 | For the past two nights Russia has been pounding Ukrainian cities. |
| 1:47.0 | The missile attacks are aimed at civilian buildings, as well as damaging Ukraine's energy |
| 1:57.8 | grid as it heads into autumn. |
| 1:59.5 | The first of the United States. To try and stop the incoming missiles, |
| 2:05.0 | to try and stop the incoming missiles, |
| 2:08.0 | Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, |
| 2:10.0 | said that Ukraine hopes to use newly acquired F-16 fighters in the sudden stretches of Russia. |
| 2:16.0 | It has already been a long war. |
| 2:22.0 | After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western countries applied sanctions |
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