In moscow, if you take the subway, you pay with your face. They have said that they will use facial recognition in a schools to check attendon and and other stuff. The most important part here is essentially putting government services on lining and controlling all that. And we heard from edward that the sanctions being discussed now in the west will be really severe. I think nata will go after its tack.
We unpick the week’s torrent of headlines; an invasion may yet come but either way President Vladimir Putin has already harmed Russia. The country’s digital self-isolation project is quietly forging ahead; we examine its home-grown “tech stack” with everything from chips up to apps. And we hear from a Ukrainian woman whose life has been upended by the conflict’s uncertainties.
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