Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Global Voices: Even before the smoke from Monday's Minsk Metro blast dispersed, the dual question of: "What is to be done? - W...

Driving past the Moscow mayor's office at night in the early 1990s, lights were always on in Mayor Popov's office. During the turbul...

What makes it all so hard to understand? That is the question that arises with authoritarian regimes and comprehension of basic political dy...

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...