Russia has shipped 300 Ukrainians from Mariupol to a town in the Far East, over 7,000 km away (actually further than Rwanda is from England). primamedia.ru/news/1279614/?…
The Far East is one of Russia's most demographically insecure regions with high mortality and migration. Officials must consider Ukrainians a form of cheap labor, and many refugees will probably accept Russian citizenship due to lack of other options (some have no documents).
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A hospital near Moscow mixed up two patients, one of them died and his body handed over to the wrong family who buried him only to found out their real grandpa was alive. But because his only document is a death certificate he can't leave the hospital. novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/…
Seeing this went viral, a couple more anecdotal details: when the family was picking up the (wrong) corpse, they actually said, this is not our grandpa. But hospital staff convinced them, saying the facial bones shift after death.
The body was buried at the family plot, under the wrong name. Now it needs to be exhumed, but the dead man's actual family is not particularly interested in this body. The hospital meanwhile is saying, just leave the corpse be, why go through all this hassle?
My first story from Yakutia, with great pictures by @AFPMladen. Troubling times for people living in Soviet-era houses built on permafrost without climate change in mind. news.yahoo.com/siberian-regio…
This is how people study permafrost in the Permafrost Institute's freezing underground lab: they cut the permafrost cylinders like sausage.
And these structures that look like anti-tank obstacles are called "seasonal cooling installations". Freon or Kerosene in the part above ground cools in the winter and drops below surface in condensed form to keep the permafrost solid.