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 Veckans Affärer: In 2010, business paper Euromoney Magazine awarded Russia's Alexei Kudrin finance minister of the year in the wor...

For Newsmill.se: If not Putin - then who? The bitter truth is that twelve years with Putin have eradicated next to all viable alternatives ...

For Newsmill.se: As tens of thousands gather in Moscow and other Russian cities, it is in protest against a corrupt regime, which no longer...

Driving past the Moscow mayor's office at night in the early 1990s, lights were always on in Mayor Popov's office. During the turbul...

For Global Voices Online : Anna Politkovskaya... The mere name evokes images of Moscow's worst public relations nightmare in years - an...

In recent years, sovereign democracy has become a key ideological tenet in Russian politics and society. As the ideology for the party in po...

According to Russian newspaper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta , Russian communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov considers withdrawing his candidacy for the...

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...

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

" Russia is a northern country and if temperatures get warmer by two or three degrees Celsius it's not that bad - we could spend le...