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War on wildlife: the truth about badger culling

Published on: 4 September 2013

Written by: Heidi Stephenson All articles by Heidi Stephenson

The decision to initiate the badger culling scheme is not only ill-informed, but deliberately shallow. It is time to...
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Flowers on a dung heap: markets, politicians and the demise of Russian rural life

Published on: 26 January 2012

Written by: Roman Yushkov All articles by Roman Yushkov

Written by: Vassily Moseyev All articles by Vassily Moseyev

The economic and political transformations of the 1990s onwards have allowed much of the Russian countryside to die...
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Russian provincial life: down on the farm

Published on: 14 September 2011

Written by: Elena Strelnikova All articles by Elena Strelnikova

In any country farming is a hard life, but in Russia the mass exodus to the cities of people of working age has had...

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