[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• The Dragon's Tales links to news of remarkably thorough reconstruction of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.


• Eastern Approaches visits eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis notes that Pakistan still apparently lays claim to the former Muslim-run princely state of Junagadh in Gujarat.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad both note a proposed bill before the Russian parliament that would require the fingerprinting of all HIV-positive people in a national database.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes a continuing crisis in the availability of rental spaces in the American housing market, linking it to low-density zoning.


• Torontoist notes the sad loss of a pet pigeon on Queen Street West.


• Towleroad notes continuing controversy over the use of the HIV drug Truvada as a prophylactic against infection.


• The Volokh Conspiracy visits controveries over affirmative action in the United States where different minorities (here, Asian-Americans) have different claims.


• Window on Eurasia visits the increasingly problematic lot of Crimean Tatars in their Russian-occupied homeland, notes that traditionally pro-Russian Belarus is newly wary of its eastern partner, and quotes from a journalist who predicts catastrophe from a Russian pursuit of empire.