Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

A spectre is haunting Eurasia - the spectre of activism. As cyberage sets in, the mentality of old Eurasia grapples to grasp the power of th...

Earlier this week, the Swedish Dagens Nyheter news photographer Lars Lindqvist won second price in the World Press Photo competition for ...

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

Has Putin - Time Magazine Man of the Year 2007 - been dethroned? Has virile Volodya finally lost his powerful sex appeal and magic with the...

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...

Whoever wants to follow the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia may find up-to-date coverage on Global Voices Onl...

A Ukraine eternally condemned to be split between east and west is the image that persistently lingers on the retina of imagery as historica...

According to Georgian TV-channel Rustavi 2 , Georgian interior ministry forces today shot down a Russian fighter over the Kodori gorge of br...

Kars, at Turkey's border to the Caucasus, is today mostly known as the place where Pamuk's novel Snow takes place, among raging sno...

During his recent visit to Sweden, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, was obliged to drink a cup of malice, literally and in terms of ...

Who would not agree that a night at the disco is better than a night with a Kalashnikov? Hence, "the supply of discotheques in conflict...

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

Is the current xenophobic campaign against Georgians in Russia run by Putin and the Kremlin? Much indicates that this is actually the case. ...

On this particular morning, October 7, Vladimir Vladimirovich woke at nine in his native city of St. Petersburg. He had had a good night...

On Wednesday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned Ukraine and Georgia of joining Nato. During a speech in the Russian State Duma, ...

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...