Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

A union between Russia and Belarus with Putin as president? Those are the rumours presently at sway in Moscow, as Dmitri Medvedev has just b...

According to Georgian TV-channel Rustavi 2 , Georgian interior ministry forces today shot down a Russian fighter over the Kodori gorge of br...

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...

Now it is official what everyone in the business has known for the last 15 years. Back in 1991, Boris Yeltsin offered Finland to buy back Ka...

Beware female readers. Putin does it again. In a widely published photo "strip", Russian president Putin poses to the cameras with...

This week, Polish president Lech Kaczyński called for early parliamentary polls this autumn. However, it is unlikely that elections will put...

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 ...