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The Fifth Floor: Who is Yogi Adityanath?

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Yogi Adityanath Uttar Pradesh's new leader (credit: SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images)

21/04/2017 GMT

Who is Yogi Adityanath?

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Getting to know Uttar Pradesh's new saffron-robed Chief Minister

Uttar Pradesh's controversial new leader; Khrushchev's crumbling Soviet blocks; ending the hunt for Kony; China's corruption tv drama

If India's Uttar Pradesh were a country it would be the fifth largest in the world.  The state's new chief minister is Yogi Adityanath of the BJP party, which won a sweeping victory in last month's elections. The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi has been analysing his popularity and following the controversies that surround him.

Goodbye Krushchyovkas...  
Around 1.5 million people in Moscow are waiting anxiously to hear more about plans to tear down the outdated Soviet blocks they live in. Hundreds of so-called Krushchyovkas have already been demolished, and 8,000 more are about to be flattened. BBC Russian's Oleg Boldyrev shares memories of growing up in one. 

Ending the hunt for Kony
Ugandan troops have called off the search for Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army known for the destruction of rural communities in northern Uganda. The violence, enslavement and abduction of children also affected South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic. We get the response of BBC Africa's Paul Bakibinga.

We don't have that word! 
Fifth Floor journalists are constantly translating complex news stories from English, a task which can be fiendishly difficult as often their languages lack the word or entire concepts. There are some surprising omissions.  

Making a hit out of corruption  
China has been gripped by a new tv drama about corruption investigators.  'In The Name of the People' goes behind the scenes in Chinese politics to reveal greed, immorality and violence.  Yashan Zhao of BBC Chinese tells us why she's a fan.  

And Fifi Haroon's pick of the world wide web.

Image: Yogi Adityanath Uttar Pradesh's new leader
Credit: SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images

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