Frank Jacobs at Big Think: Don’t believe the Kremlin. It claims that from 2020 to 2024, the Russian economy grew by 13%. Instead, believe the lights Russians leave on at night. They reveal the country’s GDP actually shrank by 8% over that period. So says Sweden’s foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard in a New York Times op-ed. Stenergard wasn’t entirely guessing. Sweden’s intelligence services arrived at that figure by measuring nighttime lum…
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