Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Newsmill.se: The enormous attention that the indictment against Pussy Riot has created in both Russia and internationally is an ex...

For Global Voices Online: Say the word "roads" to most Russians, and you are likely to end up with an half-hour discussion. T...

For Newsmill.se:   Putin's inability to deliver on his promises sows the seeds to the civil society thay may cause his downfall. It does...

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

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

For Global Voice Online : As casualty numbers rise from Sundays' ferry catastrophe on the river Volga, Russians have come to the bitter...

For Global Voices: Even before the smoke from Monday's Minsk Metro blast dispersed, the dual question of: "What is to be done? - W...

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...

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 : "Orthodoxy or death!" are the war cries sounded in recent weeks as forces of religious reaction have e...