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  • An increase in rent shows a induced demand for the property.

    Nope. Increase in rent shows the pumped up scarcity.

    More people are wanting to live in this location, thus the rents have gone up because of this demand.

    Again nope. You are spreading propaganda without knowing it. Rent is driven by rental algorithms like Yardi and Realpage. Supply and demand do not work if the property is in the hands of few that calculate their prices using the same database and the same algorithms.







  • Western nations aren’t funding people to work in Russia.

    They are. VoA and Red Cross do function there. Alongside with a thousand of commercial organizations like Manpower and Unilever

    Russia requires people who live there and accept funding from overseas to register as foreign agents

    Yes and no. Currently, the government can pronounce anyone a foreign agent stating that they are under foreign influence. Money is not the source of this status anymore.

    Foreign research initiatives in Russia used to work a little bit different to what you have probably used to. There were, effectively two ways:

    1. Foreign organizations grant Russian scientists money for research, but the money is transferred to the Russian government, and the government gives it to the scientists in a year.

    2. A foreign organization and a Russian both give a grant to a cross-national group. The foreign one transfers money to the foreign part of the group and the Russian one transfers to the Russian.

    Both these ways seem to work right now, so the claim in the article looks suspicious to me.