Propaganda has long propped up Vladimir Putin’s regime. What is it like to be a consumer of Russia’s state-controlled media?
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The Kharkiv gene bank’s main trove of seeds remains safe in an underground vault. But with recent shelling, it may have been a close-run thing https://t.co/sHdLdqlHmX

Monkeypox is most frequently transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, bodily fluids or contaminated material such as clothes and bedding. Many of the recent European infections have been linked to big events https://t.co/D7dfrm1XrC

Anyone who goes about mostly on two wheels will find “Two Wheels Good” an entertaining ride https://t.co/HnQUYjaqDs

If Russia is allowed to keep the land it has stolen from Ukraine, Vladimir Putin may be tempted to grab more—from Ukraine or from another country such as Georgia or Moldova https://t.co/TnMzy9q9Gu

Two weeks after the first round of “stimmies”, shares favoured by small buyers gained 13% whereas the overall market was up just 2% https://t.co/Gkd8VmopRk

Defenders of the bill think it will make Britain “the safest place in the world in which to use the internet”. But some worry it will “strangle free speech online” https://t.co/5KG4hoKHhR

How will war in Ukraine shape the world economy? Our team at #wef22 in Davos discuss the fallout on “The Economist Asks” podcast https://t.co/A4FBMLr7Ul

For much of its history Switzerland was poor. We explain how it has prospered as a haven for businesses https://t.co/Z74FMXYhC0

America’s byzantine immigration system excels at kicking out foreign-born graduates https://t.co/8N8vndzYCl

Though Kishida Fumio leads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and thus Japan itself, the party remains under the sway of Abe Shinzo, especially when it comes to foreign and security policy https://t.co/HH7dzuvd15

Stronger automatic stabilisers are a “critical” approach to handle the next crisis, argues former White House economist @Claudia_Sahm. In a guest essay, she explains why https://t.co/JKdv97VnHv

America has already imposed financial sanctions on Eritrea’s army and ruling party. The UN should follow this lead 
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Whatever its building blocks, life will need a solvent in which to function. On Earth, that solvent is water, but life elsewhere might have found a way to employ other chemicals https://t.co/9PNAoxKb2G

It pushes prices up around the world, and may not even help in domestic markets https://t.co/b4maXqKOcp

There is no good reason to let civilians own guns that fire rapidly, or magazines that let them kill a room full of people before reloading https://t.co/d9cQs1WFrS

Can particle colliders ever unlock the secrets of the universe? @alokjha travels to @CERN at the Franco-Swiss border to investigate for “Babbage”, our podcast on science and technology https://t.co/uNr2QuSzjz

African countries have not adopted anything like the sophisticated opinion monitoring and censorship prevalent in China. But some regimes have used blunter tactics when challenged https://t.co/abk1jzW5rM

Today on “The Intelligence”: the most important Colombian election in recent history, the many reasons Africa is so short of fuel and remembering the laird of Muck https://t.co/1eAqn9GKII

China began expanding its role in Africa for the same reason that America and Britain once did: to protect economic interests. But the impact of China’s military activity is unclear https://t.co/xXtLqNAUU0