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The war on Ukraine is changing Russia far beyond the immediate effects of the conflict.

The new study "Russia's War Within—How Disparities between Russian Regions Are Growing in the Wake of the War on Ukraine" https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33003.91683/1 is the first detailed investigation of how the burdens of the war are affecting the economy, population and society in the various regions of Russia.

Geography and regional science scholar Dr. Helmut Klüter, a former professor of regional geography at the University of Greifswald, analyzes 67 maps, 95 illustrations and 55 tables in his study. His analysis shows that remote regions of Siberia, the Far East and the northern European part of Russia have been hit particularly hard by the effects of the war.

"It has been a long time since developments in the war were felt only on the front lines.…