Bloody Sunday: Russia’s strikes on Sumy
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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President Donald Trump called the weekend strike on Sumy a “mistake”; other leaders called it a war crime. We examine the prospects for peace when Russia is brazenly hitting civilian targets. As scientists flee American institutions, Europe is trying to woo them (10:29). And Britain’s historical consumer-price index as a fascinating window into how shoppers’ tastes have shifted (17:24).
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:07.8 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:13.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.8 | The Trump administration's kneecapping of America's science institutions is having an unintended yet entirely predictable effect. |
| 1:31.1 | Brainy researchers want out. We look at what European institutions are doing and should be doing to hoover up all that talent. |
| 1:40.4 | And Britain's Consumer Price Index is, as elsewhere, calculated from a notional standard basket of goods. |
| 1:47.8 | But standards really have changed. |
| 1:50.4 | We look at what's been in the basket over the years, from cod liver oil to small caged mammals. |
| 1:59.4 | First up, though. |
| 2:12.7 | Sumi's a town near Ukraine's northeastern border. |
| 2:18.3 | It's a classic small provincial town founded by the Cossacks in the middle of the 17th century. Tim Judah is a special correspondent for the economist. |
| 2:23.3 | I was there exactly 10 days ago to meet the head of Sumi Province's military administration |
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