Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Global Voices Online : Anna Politkovskaya... The mere name evokes images of Moscow's worst public relations nightmare in years - an...

For Global Voices Online : Just another death, just another obituary. That seems to be the general sentiment as news of today's murder ...

Azerbaijan rates 150 out of 173 countries on Reporters Without Borders' 2008 Press Freedom Index . Last Friday's jailing of Azeri b...

On Friday, July 10, the two Azeri bloggers and youth activists, Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, were put in two months' pre-trial jail cu...

For Global Voices Online : Two new presidents, two great powers, and three world leaders. That was the stage set as US President Obama earl...

Amid heated Swedish debate on the existence of a Russian Cold War sub threat, a Swedish sub this morning hit Russian ground. Information abo...

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If society bans murder, how can society itself commit murder? By which morality does a state justify and perform murder of its own citizens?...

To all friends and acquaintances celebrating nowrūz, I wish you a really Happy New Year, from Albania in the West to Kazakhstan in the East....

Over the years, voices have been raised to bring Vladimir Putin to justice for a variety of alleged crimes, especially among Russophobic gro...