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Moscow Tries to Woo Doctors With Free Rent

KOMMSERSANT (Russia)



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MOSCOW - The doctor is in the house! At least, that is what Moscow’s city government is hoping.

Under a new program called “The doctor is next door,” the city will be renting space to private medical practices on the first floor of residential buildings for 1 ruble ($0.03) per square meter per year.

In return, the general practitioners and pediatricians will be expected to provide services for free, although other doctors will be able to charge, Kommersant reports. The general practitioners and pediatricians will be paid a salary from Russia’s compulsory medical insurance fund.

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The city is taking these steps in an effort to reduce the load on public clinics and to increase access to family doctors, Kommersant reports. It’s not the first time the city has used very low rents to encourage private investment in projects the city wanted done - the city has also offered very low rents for historical buildings as long as they are properly restored.

All dilapidated buildings in need of repairs can also be rented for a symbolic sum as long as the renters open a private preschool after renovation.

Experts had varying opinions about the effectiveness of the program, which was announced this week. Some heralded it as a good way to help doctors fight against high rents in Moscow while others doubted that there were enough trained family doctors to go around. Others worried that the free consultations would be used to pressure patients into unnecessary, and costly, medical procedures, Kommersant reports.

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Why Wars Don't Ever End — A Novelist's Notes From The Ukraine Front Line

In Warsaw-based daily Gazeta Wyborcza, Polish writer Szczepan Twardoch poses a crucial question on the front lines of the war in Ukraine: "What will you do when the war ends?" One answer struck him more than any other...

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Even if Ukraine manages to defeat Russia, they will never agree to a loss.

Since June, I have been increasingly hearing that the war will end, which has led to several follow-up questions: What will Ukraine look like after the war? Will Volodymyr Zelensky run for president again? What will Russia be like afterwards? What will the security architecture of the two countries be?

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Over time, scholarly analyses of new strategies for victory suddenly replaced analyses of what the world would look like when the war was over.

But why? Is it because of overall fatigue with the war as a constant headline? Or maybe everyone has admitted that there may be no spectacular success for the Ukrainian counteroffensive, that there is a chance of a stalemate, and that it's better to think of what will happen going forward?

Maybe these conversations are already taking place, behind closed doors. Wars have often been fought during negotiations. Could it be that someone is already negotiating?

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