Strikes, fear: an update from Kharkiv

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After failing to take Ukraine’s second city, Russian forces continue to pummel it with air, artillery and missile strikes. We speak again with an increasingly despondent Kharkiv native. Many schoolyard games have deep histories, conveying culture down the generations; these days they are adapting to the pandemic era. And the revival of Mexico’s murals with a purpose. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:13.3	There's something comforting about the timelessness of playground games, the ones I knew as
1:19.0	tag or ring around the rosies. Our correspondent says there's more to it. Those games are a
1:25.0	conduit for culture, and they too have been infected by COVID.
1:30.6	Mural painting has a long history in Mexico.
1:33.8	It started with the Omex, the region's first major civilization, and ran well into the 20th century
1:40.1	with Diego Rivera.
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