How the father figures: a mysterious Moscow killing

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

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Speculation is rampant as to who killed Darya Dugina, the pundit daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist. We ask how the murder will be spun in the absence of answers. When it comes to gay rights, Singapore’s government takes more than it gives. And why some minority languages thrive while others wither. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.
0:06.6	In New York, I'm John Fassman.
0:09.0	And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.
0:11.5	Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:19.2	Last weekend, Singapore's government announced it would repeal a colonial era law criminalizing
0:23.8	sex between men.
0:25.6	The city states gay community rejoiced.
0:28.2	And with this one step forward, comes a bigger one back.
0:33.5	And when the only speakers of a regional minority language are the elderly, the diagnosis
0:38.4	is usually terminal.
0:40.3	But bask from the north of Spain has beaten all the odds.
0:44.2	We look at the mixed successes of Europe's zombie languages.
0:55.8	Next up, though.
1:06.0	On Saturday, a car bomb in Moscow killed a 29-year-old right-wing journalist named Darya
1:11.4	Dugan.
1:16.4	Like many on the nationalist rights, she was a vocal supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine.
1:21.0	A view she shared with or inherited from her father Alexander Dugan.
1:26.4	So we have our special erasian truths that you need to accept as something that may
1:33.7	he's a philosopher, lecturer, media personality, pushing a hard-right nationalist agenda rooted
1:39.9	in deep history.
1:41.7	He supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and like President Vladimir Putin, thinks
1:47.3	that Ukraine isn't really its own state.
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