Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

What will Russia be like in 2014? This is the first thought arising, after the initial joy of learning that Sochi won its candidacy for the ...

Should a foreign minister be allowed to blog? This has been a burning issue in the Swedish media and blogosphere this year. The blog in ques...

Kars, at Turkey's border to the Caucasus, is today mostly known as the place where Pamuk's novel Snow takes place, among raging sno...

During his recent visit to Sweden, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, was obliged to drink a cup of malice, literally and in terms of ...

A spectre is haunting Eurasia - the spectre of Gerontocracy. All the Powers of new Europe are deserting a divided Union to shy away from thi...

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...

Strange rumours come out of Moscow these days. Indeed, would one believe in all gossip on the current power struggle in Russia, the world as...

A fire has broken out in the Moscow Ostankino TV-tower, according to Moskovski Komsomolets . The famous tower, a scene of the 1993 shootout ...

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

We will cleanse Russia of all non-Russians! This was the message relayed in print on British Burton menswear store's new T-shirt, The ...