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Putin Munich speech and February speech

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Late April video

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Information and sources on the Donbass genocide

"Some 15,000 people have been killed since 2014 in fighting between the Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian army," https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/separatist-leader-says-full-scale-war-east-ukraine-could-break-out-any-time-2022-02-07/ "Ukrainian government forces and separatists that has cost 15,000 lives" https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/02/21/Putin-Russia-must-consider-recognizing-breakaway-Ukrainian-regions "81% of civilians died from Ukrainian shelling" https://ukraine.un.org/en/149895-32nd-report-ohchr-human-rights-situation-ukraine-covers-period-1-february-31-july-2021-it

April News

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Comparing modern Russia with the Soviet Union

Russia's unemployment rate is 5.73%. The Russian Federation's unemployment rate peaked at13.26% in 1998. The Russian Federation's unemployment rate was at its lowest in 2019 when it was 4.6%. The source for those figures is MacroTrends. Maurice Dobb's Soviet Economic Development Since 1917 states that the unemployment problem "was only to disappear and give way to labour scarcity as a result of the large constructional activity of the first two years of the First Five Year Plan." This is supported by the findings in José Luis Ricón's “The Soviet Union: Achieving full employment”, Nintil (2016-07-30). The CIA Factbook, by no means a pro-Soviet source, estimated that between 1% and 2% of the Soviet population was unemployed during 1990. According to The Borgen Project, 3.5% of the Russian population is homeless. That is five million people. 13.3% of Russia's population live in poverty which amounts to 19,218,500 people. "according to a secret