Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Global Voices Online: A picture says more than a thousand words, the saying goes. An Instagram snapshot that the Russian PM Dmitry ...

For Global Voices Online : "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." This chronically misused Kipling phra...

For Global Voices: Even before the smoke from Monday's Minsk Metro blast dispersed, the dual question of: "What is to be done? - W...

For Global Voices Online : Is it a deliberate provocation, a government-engineered attack on a foreign head of state, a gas-giant's att...

If society bans murder, how can society itself commit murder? By which morality does a state justify and perform murder of its own citizens?...

A union between Russia and Belarus with Putin as president? Those are the rumours presently at sway in Moscow, as Dmitri Medvedev has just b...

This Sunday saw the biggest opposition demonstrations in Minsk since the April protests against the presidential elections last year, prolo...

Yesterday, a Russian space rocket carrying 18 satellites crashed shortly after takeoff from Baikonur spacebase in Kazakhstan, as reported by...

Today, a court in Minsk sentenced Belarus opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Kozulin to five and a half years...

On Monday, the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund announced that this year's human rights' awards both go to Belarus. Thus, Tatiana Ravyaka r...

On account of a recent dicussion at Tobias Ljungvall on Belarus , more questions must obviously be raised about Galina Rodionovna - wife of...

Hits, blows and kicks - the eternal language of totalitariansim - today confonts the people's inalienable right to freedom and democrac...