Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

Today, the first more comprehensive analysis of the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008 was published, less than a month after hostilities end...

What have we learnt from the war in Georgia? That is the question addressed in one of the first more comprehensive reports of the recent war...

"The West must be bolder in its response to a newly assertive Russia." This is the proposition made for the upcoming The Economis...

As relations between Russia and the West deteriorate, a growing tendency to misperceive Russian motives is discerned. Russia is not a monoli...

As Turkmenistan is facing presidential elections on 11 February, it is becoming increasingly clear that the late Nyýazow's successors ha...

Turkey will not have to recognize the Armenian genocide to become an EU member, EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, said on Tuesday ...

Little more than a month after becoming Ukrainian Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, seems poised to break his pledge to president Viktor Yu...

Chernobyl's lesson is that a state's lies threaten its people and its sovereignty. With this argument, former US ambassador to Kiev,...

In August 1991, Estonia regained its lost independence after nearly 50 years of soviet occupation. Some 15 years later, Estonia and Russia s...

As reported by international media, US and EU relations with Iran have recently turned for the worse because of Iran's unilateral decisi...