标题: 2022.10.02 印尼踩踏事件中丧生 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-10-2 18:11 标题: 2022.10.02 印尼踩踏事件中丧生 Russian troops retreated from Lyman, a key logistics hub in Donetsk, hours after Ukrainian forces entered the city. Ukraine said the recapture would allow its military to advance into Luhansk, a region Russia took over in July. The retreat comes after Vladimir Putin’s illegal annexation of four regions of Ukraine, including Donetsk and Luhank. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, a region in southern Russia, urged Mr Putin to take “more drastic measures”, including “the use of low-yield nuclear weapons”.
At least 174 people were killed in a stampede after a football match in Indonesia. Supporters of Arema FC, a club from Malang, East Java, rushed onto the pitch after their team lost to regional rivals, Persebaya Surabaya. Local police retaliated with tear gas which triggered a stampede, according to the region’s police chief. Fixtures in the league have been suspended until an investigation is completed.
The death toll from Hurricane Ian continued to rise as it moved into Virginia. At least 54 people have died so far—almost all of them in Florida. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are without power. President Joe Biden will visit Florida on Wednesday to survey the damage there. Ian is expected to dissipate by Sunday morning.
Liz Truss acknowledged that her government should have laid “the ground better” for her mini-budget on September 23rd; the extensive tax cuts provoked a panic on the money markets and a run on the pound. Britain’s prime minister was answering questions in an interview on the eve of her Conservative Party’s annual conference. She nonetheless stood by the cuts and her general economic policy.
America and Venezuela conducted a prisoner swap, with seven Americans exchanged for two relatives of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president. The freed Americans included five executives from Citgo, an oil company. The transfer, a result of months of secretive talks between both governments, does not change America’s policy towards Venezuela, according to an American offical.
Exit polls from Latvia showed that New Unity, a party led by Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins, a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin, was set to win the general election by a sizeable margin. Its political rival, the Harmony party, which draws most of its support from Latvia's ethnic Russian population, is projected to have not won enough votes to enter parliament.
Poland began to receive gas from Norway through a new pipeline running from the Baltic Sea to Poland via Denmark. The Baltic Pipe will help diversify Poland’s gas supplies away from Russia. Meanwhile, Bulgaria and Greece began operating their long-delayed gas pipeline. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, called it a “game changer” and said it would deliver “freedom from dependency on Russian gas”.
Word of the week: dedovshchina, the name for the tradition of hazing conscripts in Russia. Read the full story.
Seeking investment, Ukraine hosts a business shindig
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The backdrop for IT Arena 2022, a business conference that ends on Saturday in Lviv, in western Ukraine, looks grim. On Friday Russia forcibly annexed a sizable chunk of the country, annual inflation is around 20%, wages have been cut and Ukraine’s economy is on track to shrink this year by nearly a third. But conditions could be worse. Earlier in the war it looked as though GDP would fall by half. Unemployment is falling, albeit from frightful heights. Hiring is strongest in western areas such as Lviv, where IT Arena 2022 attendees have gathered at secret venues. One is underground; the other has bomb shelters.
Aiming to make the most of Ukraine’s reputation for resourceful resistance and plucky entrepreneurialism, the government has launched Advantage Ukraine, a programme to boost foreign investment. Red tape is being cut. Hundreds of permit requirements have been scrapped. Ukraine, its economy minister says, seeks not humanitarian aid, but investment, which “we understand…as blood for the Ukrainian economy”.
China’s National Day holidays
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In normal times, China’s “Golden Week” vacation, which begins on Saturday, calls forth a glut of holiday spending. But wallets are lighter this year. Sporadic lockdowns to stamp out covid-19 have worsened an economic slump. Would-be travellers also fear getting trapped—150,000 got stuck at the beach resorts of Hainan, a southern island province, during a covid outbreak this summer. Tourist spending during last year’s holidays was just 60% of that in pre-covid times. This year could be worse.
The Communist Party will try to cheer up gloomy staycationers. State media call for patriotic “positive energy” in time for a party congress later in October, at which Xi Jinping is likely to be awarded a third term as leader. A film about heroic diplomats rescuing overseas Chinese from a war zone will hit cinemas, to lift spirits. “The motherland will never leave behind any citizen,” intones one character in the film’s trailer. Officials will hope a lockdown does not close cinemas and stop people getting the patriotic message.
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A documentary about sisterhood in Myanmar
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When the Burmese army drove 700,000 Rohingyas, a mainly Muslim ethnic minoritiy, out of Myanmar in 2017, the news that reached the rest of the country was mostly state propaganda demonising those forced into exile. Filmed between 2016 and 2021 in a Rakhine village, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s documentary tells a different tale. “Midwives”, which won a prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was released in Britain on Friday, follows Hla, a tough-talking Buddhist Rakhine midwife and Nyo Nyo, her ambitious Muslim Rohingya apprentice.
Their friendship is tested by personal quarrels, as well as by escalating conflict and racial hatred. The babies they deliver, born into the world’s largest stateless minority, face an uncertain future. But the women are united in their mission to help Rohingya mothers and other patients. The country’s Bamar ethnic majority, says Ms Snow Hlaing, found a new solidarity with persecuted minorities after a bloody coup last February. “The whole country became like the Rohingya.”
Black rhinos may be better off hornless
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It is a sorry state of affairs when protecting a species from annihilation requires hacking off its most prominent feature. Nevertheless, that is what many African rhinoceros reserves have resorted to, to protect their charges from poachers. Dehorning rhinos is seen as the ultimate poacher-deterrent—it is the value of the horn that they are willing to kill for. And although dehorning is painless, its critics have suggested it may harm rhinos’ well-being or reproduction.
A study in the European Journal of Wildlife Research allays some of those fears. It looked at four subpopulations of black rhinos in Namibia, three of which had undergone dehorning. Reassuringly, in all markers of population growth (lifespan, birth rates and offspring survival) dehorned rhinos were doing just as well as horned ones. And while a hornless rhino may look somewhat diminished, it is certainly preferable to one slain by poachers.
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This week Yevgeny Prigozhin stepped out of the shadows. The close ally of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, admitted for the first time that he founded the Wagner Group, a network of guns-for-hire that does much of Russia’s dirty work. “I cleaned the old weapons myself, sorted out the bulletproof vests myself,” said Mr Prigozhin of Wagner’s early days.
The mercenaries emerged in Ukraine in 2014 to aid Russia’s annexation of Crimea and back up pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbas region. The group then expanded wherever Russia had an interest, including Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic and Mali.
As for Mr Prigozhin, little is known about his childhood. He spent most of his 20s in prison, serving nine years for robbery and fraud. After his release, he set up a hot-dog stand in St Petersburg in the 1990s. He soon opened chic eateries: his New Island floating restaurant was a favourite of Mr Putin, at the time deputy mayor of St Petersburg. His associations with Russia’s elite brought lucrative catering gigs for schools, hospitals and the army—and earned him the nickname “Putin’s Chef”. But it was his work outside the kitchen that earned him a reputation in the West. In 2018 American prosecutors indicted Mr Prigozhin, alleging that he financed a Russian “troll farm” to spread online misinformation during the presidential election in 2016.
Mr Prigozhin long denied involvement in Wagner’s bloody operation, and sued journalists who suggested as much. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine the group may have helped capture several eastern cities. Mr Prigozhin is putting his name to that. He may think that Russia’s tattered relationship with the West means there is no more point in maintaining the open secret. He may also be reminding Mr Putin, amid battlefield losses and a backlash against mobilisation at home, of his loyalty and value.
The winners of this week’s quiz
Thank you to everyone who took part in this week’s quiz. The winners, chosen at random from each continent, were:
Asia: Arun Gurjale, Hosur, India
North America: Patti Drago, Lewes, United States
Central and South America: Peter Noack, Lima, Peru
Europe: Henry Haley, Lille, France
Africa: Rob Blair, Harare, Zimbabwe
Oceania: Paula Johnson, Perth, Australia
They all gave the correct answers of Warren Beatty, Marshall plan, Jay Leno, Chevy Chase and Roberts. The theme is US Supreme Court chief justices: Earl Warren, John Marshall, John Jay, Salmon Chase and John Roberts
Weekly crossword
Our crossword is designed for experienced cruciverbalists and newcomers alike. Both sets of clues give the same answers, all of which feature in articles in this week’s edition of The Economist:
Cryptic clues
1 down Lively market-riser? The opposite of Liz Truss! (4,7)
1 across Asian riddle about religious education (6)
2 across Retreating behind, burdened by unknown duties (5)
3 across Government rules, at first, like leaders of imaginary magical establishment (6)
Factual clues
1 down Default man (4,7)
1 across One group not best pleased with Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (6)
2 across Recently cut in Britain, to disastrous effect (5)
3 across What is more rotten than ever in Iran? (6)
Email all four answers by 9am BST on Monday to crossword@economist.com, along with your home city and country. We will pick randomly from those with the right answers and crown the winners in next week’s edition.
Leopoldstadt comes to New York
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Often hailed as Britain’s greatest living playwright, Tom Stoppard has long used his erudite, linguistically dazzling plays to probe philosophical ideas. But his latest work, “Leopoldstadt”, gets more personal. Set in Vienna between 1899 and 1955, it traces the fate of a large and very well-off Jewish family that had assumed that success and assimilation made them more Viennese than Jewish. As the decades pass, they learn that their finery and oil portraits won’t keep them out of Auschwitz.
At 85, Sir Tom seems to be finally reckoning with his own inheritance, having lost his four Jewish grandparents and much of his Czech family to the horrors of the Holocaust. With this play, he elegantly conveys the guilt that comes with survival, and the duty to remember what was lost. The show, now at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway after an acclaimed run in London, also reminds the audience that this all happened not so long ago.
One nation, one fertiliser in India
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No government in India wishes to upset farmers, a votebank of more than 100m. So when the war in Ukraine sent fertiliser prices soaring, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was quick to act. Within two months it announced new subsidies worth $8bn, on top of bulky existing ones. As a result, the expected cost of subsidising fertilisers this fiscal year will reach 2.5trn rupees ($31bn), around 1% of the country’s GDP.
Naturally, the government also wants to get credit for this largesse. From Sunday all bags of fertiliser sold in the country must be emblazoned with government insignia. Private fertiliser firms complain this will hurt their brands, but the government insists that uniformity will streamline distribution. The opposition has called the move a marketing gimmick by Narendra Modi, the prime minister, and the BJP. There is a clue in the project’s official name: Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Urvarak Pariyojna, meaning Prime Minister’s all-India fertiliser scheme, which shortens handily to “PMBJP”.
Will Brazil get rid of Bolsonaro?
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Brazilians cast their ballots on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that pits the right-wing populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, against leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The campaign has been marked by polarisation and violence. Polls suggest that Lula will beat Mr Bolsonaro by anywhere from six to 17 percentage points.
But can Lula win the election outright? If no candidate gets more than 50% of votes in the first round, a run-off will be held on October 30th. Some polls suggest that Lula could pull it off. A “switch the vote” campaign seeks to convince backers of Ciro Gomes and Simone Tebet, candidates with around 5% apiece, to vote instead for Lula. Many fear that Mr Bolsonaro will reject the result if he loses. Should Lula manage a first-round win, Mr Bolsonaro will have a tough time upholding his bogus claims of fraud. But like his hero, Donald Trump, that won’t stop him from trying.
The hidden meaning of horror
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Blumhouse Productions, a film and television company, is responsible for some of the most popular horror movies of the past couple of decades. “Paranormal Activity”, a film presented as if it was made up of found video recordings, was released in 2007 and earned almost $200m from a paltry production budget of $15,000. “The Purge” franchise has made more than $450m at the box office.
The company has now lent its name to “Blumhouse’s Compendium of Horror”, a documentary series which airs on Sunday in America. The show makes a simple—and somewhat repetitive—argument: that the horror genre, far from purveying cheap, gory thrills, has always held a mirror up to society. “Dracula”, the talking heads say, encapsulated feelings about the wealthy during the Great Depression. “Godzilla” drew on Japanese viewers’ grim memories of atomic bombs. Blumhouse, it seems, considers itself part of a venerable tradition of collective catharsis.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
波兰开始通过一条从波罗的海经丹麦到波兰的新管道接收来自挪威的天然气。波罗的海管道将帮助波兰实现天然气供应的多样化，使其远离俄罗斯。与此同时，保加利亚和希腊开始运营他们拖延已久的天然气管道。欧盟委员会主席Ursula von der Leyen称其为 "游戏规则的改变者"，并称其将带来 "摆脱对俄罗斯天然气的依赖"。
本周关键词：dedovshchina，俄罗斯欺负新兵的传统名称。阅读全文。
寻求投资，乌克兰举办商业盛会
照片。IT竞技场2022提供
IT Arena 2022是一个商业会议，周六在乌克兰西部的利沃夫结束，其背景看起来很严峻。上周五，俄罗斯强行吞并了该国相当大的一部分地区，每年的通货膨胀率约为20%，工资被削减，乌克兰的经济今年将缩减近三分之一。但情况可能更糟。在战争的早期，国内生产总值似乎会下降一半。失业率正在下降，尽管是在可怕的高度上。利沃夫等西部地区的招聘情况最为火爆，2022年IT竞技场的参会者都聚集在秘密场所。一个在地下，另一个有防空洞。
照片。JOAN MARCUS
汤姆-斯托帕德经常被誉为英国在世的最伟大的剧作家，他长期以来一直用他博学的、语言上令人眼花缭乱的戏剧来探索哲学思想。但他的最新作品《利奥波德城》则更加个人化。该剧以1899年至1955年期间的维也纳为背景，追溯了一个非常富裕的犹太家庭的命运，他们认为成功和同化使他们更像维也纳人而不是犹太人。随着时间的推移，他们了解到，他们的装饰品和油画肖像并不能使他们远离奥斯威辛。