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Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country\u2019s top brass about Ukraine's position\u2014and its future. China\u2019s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America\u2019s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.

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