Paul
Goble
Staunton,
February 13 – Because it cannot send in its own census takers on the ground in
Russian-occupied Crimea and the Donbass, the Ukrainian government wants to
conduct an enumeration via satellite and is currently discussing this
possibility with representatives of NATO (atr.ua/news/196160-kabmin-hocet-provesti-perepis-naselenia-na-donbasse-i-v-krymu-s-pomosu-sputnika).
Dmytro Dubilet, who is currently minister
of the Ukrainian council of ministers, says that NATO has already conducted
such a census in Afghanistan and could help Ukraine do something similar in
Russian-occupied areas, although he conceded that at best this method will
yield only approximate results.
One of the reasons such an enumeration
even if it isn’t perfect is so important to Ukraine is that without Russian-occupied
territories, Ukraine has a total population of only 37 million, a total Moscow
has played up to suggest Ukraine is rapidly depopulating. But with them, its
population is 44 million, a more impressive figure.
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