Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

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

The Swedish government's decision to accept the disputed gas pipeline NordStream has caused debate. Is the Russian-German gas pipeline ...

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

A spectre is haunting Eurasia - the spectre of Gerontocracy. All the Powers of new Europe are deserting a divided Union to shy away from thi...

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

Which are the common assets of a nation and who should be allowed to utilise them? This is a question of heated debate for current Russia, a...

" 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...

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

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

As Kazakhstan's president Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Washington last week, his meetings with top US officials - including president Bu...

According to the New York Times , Washington is about to broker a deal with Moscow on Russian storage of US nuclear waste. In exchange, the ...

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