Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Global Voices Online : "Orthodoxy or death!" are the war cries sounded in recent weeks as forces of religious reaction have e...

For Global Voices Online : Is it a deliberate provocation, a government-engineered attack on a foreign head of state, a gas-giant's att...

Some stories are too good - or bad - not to be retold. One of them is about Moscow's summer snowstorms that annually rage across the cit...

As traditional media is increasingly turning attention to social media, the roles and cooperation of the two has become the focus of widespr...

The Swedish government's decision to accept the disputed gas pipeline NordStream has caused debate. Is the Russian-German gas pipeline ...

The simplest things in life pass with so little notice that they have to jump up and bite you in order to be understood. Evidently, so is al...

" Shut up! Parliament is not for debate! " Make no mistake: These are the words of authoritarian statehood, words of utter arroga...

A spectre is haunting Eurasia - the spectre of activism. As cyberage sets in, the mentality of old Eurasia grapples to grasp the power of th...

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 ...