Drugs on drones, or drones on drugs?

November economic newsletter. Purifying the genofund, funeral inflation, drugs/drones/spooks

Lots of topics for today’s post. In fact, so many that I was forced to save perhaps the most interesting one for tomorrow. Anyway, here are today’s themes:

• Inflation in the funeral sector

• Drugs on drones (or drones on drugs?), and a hotel killing by one of Budanov’s mobbed-up fighters

• How and why displaced Ukrainians are returning in the hundreds of thousands to territories controlled by Russia.

• How Ukrainian draft-dodgers abroad are finding their way around their lack of a Ukrainian passport

• The energy crisis, accusations of Ukrainian corruption worsening it, and the identities of the foreigners increasingly in charge of the energy system

• ‘Purifying the genofund’ - Ukraine’s collapsing demographics, and why some nationalists think this is a good thing