Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

What makes it all so hard to understand? That is the question that arises with authoritarian regimes and comprehension of basic political dy...

" Shut up! Parliament is not for debate! " Make no mistake: These are the words of authoritarian statehood, words of utter arroga...

Azerbaijan rates 150 out of 173 countries on Reporters Without Borders' 2008 Press Freedom Index . Last Friday's jailing of Azeri b...

On Friday, July 10, the two Azeri bloggers and youth activists, Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, were put in two months' pre-trial jail cu...

Last Thursday, an agreement was signed between Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan on the contruction of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railroad, further ...

This is not exactly the news one might expect coming out of Moscow these days, but it is the impression that one may get by a passing glance...