Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

A story partly based on a recent piece on Borat and Kazakhstan published on this weblog , today made the frontpage of the Norwegian daily Af...

Five out of the ten most polluted places in the world this year are to be found in the Former Soviet Union, according to a list published by...

Is the current xenophobic campaign against Georgians in Russia run by Putin and the Kremlin? Much indicates that this is actually the case. ...

Over the past few months, Blogger's comment moderation has not worked properly with this blog. Thus, e-mail notification has temporarily...

On this particular morning, October 7, Vladimir Vladimirovich woke at nine in his native city of St. Petersburg. He had had a good night...

Two weeks ago, Russian empress Dagmar was reburied in the St. Petersburg Peter and Paul's Cathedral, in accordance to her wishes. She wa...

On Tuesday evening, Open Source radio broadcasted a show on " The death of Anna Politkovskaya ", with myself, Masha Gessen - Deu...

Чудовищное убийство Анны Политковской – это трагедия не только для России, но и для многих друзей России, борцов за права человека, а также ...

Anna Politkovskaya is dead. Murdered by the same cruelty and brutality that she herself dedicated her life to fight. For a moment the world ...

According to Russian TV-news Vesti24 , the famous Russian journalist and author, Anna Politkovskaya was shot down half an hour ago in her ho...