Running for cover: our Ukraine-refugees special
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The war in Ukraine has created the greatest flux of refugees in Europe since the second world war. We visit Poland, where the response has been remarkably smooth, and a New York neighbourhood that is no stranger to émigrés from the region. And we consider the displaced who are largely overlooked: why are so many Russians exiling themselves in Turkey?
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| 1:05.5 | from The Economist. In London, I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.6 | Today, we'll be taking three views of the flood of people displaced by the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:23.2 | In next-door Poland, it's anything but a refugee crisis. |
| 1:26.9 | The country has been organized as it's welcomed more than half of those fleeing Ukraine. |
| 1:32.5 | Much further afield, my co-host John Fastman has been speaking with new arrivals in Brighton Beach, |
| 1:38.1 | a New York City neighborhood that's long been a destination for Eastern European emigrants. |
| 1:43.4 | And there's an overlooked part of the vast displacement of people that the war is causing. |
| 1:48.5 | Plenty of Russians are on the move, too. |
| 1:50.8 | We ask why so many of them are ending up in Turkey. |
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