Nabila Ramdani and Somnath Batabyal discuss support for the war in Russia and Vladimir Putin’s accidental boost to Nato and European unity. Plus: the Taliban’s further restrictions on Afghan women’s freedoms, a revamp for France’s most famous road and the end of the iPod. Plus: Petri Burtsoff looks ahead to Helsinki’s literature festival.

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