Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Global Voices Online : "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." This chronically misused Kipling phra...

What makes it all so hard to understand? That is the question that arises with authoritarian regimes and comprehension of basic political dy...

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

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

For Global Voices Online : Just another death, just another obituary. That seems to be the general sentiment as news of today's murder ...

Azerbaijan rates 150 out of 173 countries on Reporters Without Borders' 2008 Press Freedom Index . Last Friday's jailing of Azeri b...

On Friday, July 10, the two Azeri bloggers and youth activists, Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, were put in two months' pre-trial jail cu...

Gay rights are human rights. It is a paradox that the same rights, that served as the moral basis of liberation from the communist yoke in E...

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

On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights made its first ruling on Russia's war in Chechnya, BBC reports . The verdict, which rul...

On Monday, the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund announced that this year's human rights' awards both go to Belarus. Thus, Tatiana Ravyaka r...