Russia fact of the day

Turkish Airlines plans to run daily flights from Istanbul to Buenos Aires from September, up from four times a week in 2022. Weekly flights to São Paulo will increase from seven to 11 times this year, the company said. While the airline explained that demand for these routes was “quite balanced” between the countries, travel agencies in Argentina indicated that it was primarily due to flights from Turkey.

Turkey is less hospitable to Russian migrants than before, and thus it comes to this:

So many Russian babies are being born in the Brazilian city of Florianópolis that parents are banding together to hire an Orthodox priest to baptise the newest members of their families.

Here is the full FT story by Lucinda Elliott.  I also would point your attention to this excellent FT long read on the decline of Barcelona.  Remember the Catalonian independent movement?  Well, here is what that actually brought about — a shrinking of maintenance and investment.