Ukraine 2.0: a revealing visit to Kyiv
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
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| 1:06.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shape in your world. |
| 1:20.1 | China has just slipped to second in the most populous country stakes, and a demographic crisis is brewing. |
| 1:27.2 | The working age population is shrinking, |
| 1:29.3 | service sector and unskilled jobs are going unfilled, |
| 1:32.3 | and there's a chokehold on immigration. |
| 1:35.3 | And we head along to an annual rattlesnake hunt in America. |
| 1:40.3 | Lots of them are held each year, |
| 1:42.3 | supposedly, to control snake populations. |
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