The Weekend Intelligence: A nation on a knife's edge
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, return to Kyiv to to find out if cracks are beginning to emerge in the iron shield of Ukrainian unity and to ask how the war with Russia is reshaping a nation living on a knife’s edge.
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