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...

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

Amid heated Swedish debate on the existence of a Russian Cold War sub threat, a Swedish sub this morning hit Russian ground. Information abo...

Over the years, voices have been raised to bring Vladimir Putin to justice for a variety of alleged crimes, especially among Russophobic gro...

To what extent does mainstream media take into account what bloggers say about developments in Central and Eastern Europe? This is the quest...

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

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

At his annual news conference , Russian president Vladimir Putin revealed that he had never been tempted to run for a third term. From the v...

When the BBC goes off the air, civilisation is at an end. At least, so seems to have been the British view during the Cold War, as submarine...

Between 1 and 30 June this year, the Blog-Carnival Russian media will take place. Initiated by the Swiss blog Krusenstern , bloggers with ...

Will the Kremlin's grip on Russian freedom of speech tighten further? This fear has grown stronger in recent days, as president Putin th...

Another mysterious death of a critical journalist mars Russian media, Kommersant reports . Ivan Safronov, aged 51, was found dead at the ent...