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The Intelligence from The Economist

Re-route of all evil: transnational crime and Ukraine’s war

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Daily News, Global News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Criminal networks have had to reorganise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with knock-on effects from Afghanistan to the Andes. We take a look at the scourge of abductions in Nigeria, and what is being done for the families of the missing. And Scotland’s Campbeltown whisky is enjoying a long-awaited resurgence.


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0:56.8

It's from a school in Northern Nigeria.

0:59.4

Most of them have still not been found.

1:01.8

And alongside thousands of other missing Nigerians, hope is dwindling that they ever will be.

1:08.2

And, Campbelltown, on a western Scottish peninsula, used to be known as the Whiskey Capital

1:14.5

of the world.

1:15.5

Now, after a century of mostly decline, global exports and prices are on the rise, and Campbelltown

1:22.5

is slowly beginning its title.

1:29.1

But first, in the past three days, Russian air strikes have pummeled Ukrainian cities,

1:41.8

including the capital Kiev.

1:43.6

Meanwhile, an explosion in Buryansk, a region just over the Russian border, derailed a freight

1:48.8

train, and in Russian occupied Crimea, a drone strike set an oil depot ablaze.

1:55.3

American officials released figures yesterday suggesting there had been more Russian casualties

1:59.5

since December than in the first eight months of the war.

2:03.4

Many of them in the brutal battle for the psychologically, but not strategically, important

2:07.6

town of Bakmut.

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