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23rd Mar 2023

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Hundreds of Italian villages may soon be deserted

Around a third of villages in Italy are at risk of turning into "ghost" villages in the next 25 years because young people are leaving, and those who are left behind are dying of old age. The data comes from Legambiente, a national environmental association, which notes 2,430 villages are at risk.

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How much can we trust Russian opinion polls on the war?

The lack of Russian opposition to the Russo-Ukrainian War is puzzling. The war is going nowhere, Russian casualties are staggering, the economy is in trouble, and living standards are declining, and yet polls indicate that most Russians support the war.

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