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Volume 443 Number 9296
Europe
47 Ukraine’s wartime
economy
48 Putin’s parade
49 Germany’s Social
Democrats take a beating
50 France’s radical left
50 “Borgen” returns
52 CharlemagneHow the eu
handles crises
Britain
53 An interview with
Boris Johnson
54 Sir Beer Starmer
55 BagehotLabour and the
Lib Dems
International
57 Transatlantic tech talks
Business
59 The tech crunch
61 Razing baby Amazons
61 The zerocovid industrial
complex
62 The surveilled office
63 BartlebyWoolly words
64 SchumpeterTaming the
activists
Finance&economics
65 Global property
67 China’s trade slows...
67 ...Russian exports bear up
68 Inflation everywhere
69 ButtonwoodItalian debt
anxieties
70 Digital payments in Brazil
72 Free exchangeIndia, the
world’s growth motor?
Science&technology
73 Babies’ genomes
74 Bugs fed by immunity
75 Bats mimic hornets’ buzz
76 Russia and the Arctic
Culture
77 The capital of rock’n’roll
78 Regional foods
79 Emperors past and present
80 The quest for eternal life
80 A tricksy new novel
82 Back StoryTyranny and
storytelling
Economic&financialindicators
84 Statistics on 42 economies
Graphicdetail
85 Russia is swaying Twitter users outside the West to its side
Obituary
86 Ron Galella, the original paparazzo