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Balaji Srinivasan's Network School got kicked out of Malaysia, so they're picking up stakes and moving to Kazakhstan while making a hard pivot into being a natalist compound. We're talking about it, plus we read your letters on:

• The shape of Russia during the 90s, 2000s, and now
• Traveling to Russia in the early 2010s
• Different statistics used to measure birth rates and how one statistic doesn't paint the whole picture
• Lyman Stone's tweet about Somalians and why he made the distinctions he did