Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

Russia is a wondrous country. To this most Russians themselves as well as foreigners would agree. Still, as the new seven wonders of the wor...

What makes a candidate stand for an election that he knows he cannot win, and in the process is destined to drift to the verge of bankruptcy...

A Ukraine eternally condemned to be split between east and west is the image that persistently lingers on the retina of imagery as historica...

In recent years, sovereign democracy has become a key ideological tenet in Russian politics and society. As the ideology for the party in po...

This weekend past saw the first anniversary of the Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis - over the removal of a soviet WW II monument from central...

An increasing number of surveys rate Russian president Vladimir Putin the richest man in Europe. Putin is allegedly to have amassed enormous...

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...

The pro-Putin youth movement Nashi is to be dissolved as a national organisation, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reports . The decisio...

According to Russian newspaper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta , Russian communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov considers withdrawing his candidacy for the...

According to Russian newspaper Vzglyad , a number of activists of Russian pro-Putin youth movement " Nashi " were arrested today d...