Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

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

"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...

Why is it that a WW II-monument repeatedly sparks bilateral crises between Estonia and Russia? This question has, in recent days, gained new...

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

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

On Wednesday, news broke that a new orange coalition government is forming in Ukraine. Both president Yushchenko's Our Ukraine and the ...

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

Everyone who has done it, knows how much works it takes to write or edit a book. As the editor with main day-to-day responsibility of Russi...

What are the major characteristics of Russia's Putinist foreign policy? What is obvious is that the growth in oil incomes is parallel o...