Russian troops and dignitaries gathered to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany. The annual Victory Day celebrations are intended to showcase Russian military strength. But when will Ukraine be able to celebrate its liberation? And what will post-war Ukraine look like? Those are questions that Shoshan Joshi and Kadi Ostrowsky spent a week in Kiev exploring.
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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