Two independent Russian media outlets, the MediaSona and Medusa, put it together. They started by going through memories. And then they could look at surplus inheritance claims filed since the war began. That basically enabled them to come up with an estimate of the total number dead.
The carmaker, which reports results today, is still celebrating impressive growth and its boss has even bigger plans for it. But with the threat of fast-scaling competitors in the EV market, is the company losing its disruptive edge? Our data correspondent’s novel approach to counting Russian casualties in Ukraine (09:39). And, a nail-biting, ever riskier Tour de France nears its end (15:26).
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