A Russian bank, Promsvyazbank, is to start paying money to thousands of residents of Gagauzia, an autonomous region in Moldova. The bank is effectively an arm of the defense ministry -- and therefore the Kremlin -- and is run by the son of a former senior Russian spy. It is sanctioned in the West.
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A group of tech billionaires wants to build a new city in the middle of California farmland
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... A group of tech billionaires and others is hoping to get residents in Northern California's Solano County to approve what backers hope amounts to a new city.
The project is called California Forever, and it aims to turn farmland into a medium density city that could grow to up to 400,000 residents in the future.
This isn't the first plan to build a new city in this part of the country. Microsoft's Bill Gates bought land in west Phoenix with the aim of building a smart city there. A few years ago, a tech billionaire announced plans for a new sustainable city to be built somewhere in the desert Southwest. And there are others.
The Show spoke with Greg Lindsay about the new California Forever proposal. He's an urbanist who's studied, written and spoken about cities for years. ...
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