Capital accounts: on the ground in Kyiv
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Our correspondent finds Ukraine's capital already accustomed to an eerie war footing. People are getting married and playing music, even as medicine runs out and a new volunteer army braces for fighting. Australia’s barely fathomable floods show freakish weather is becoming increasingly common there. And the case for reforming how grammar is taught.
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