Vilhelm Konnander's weblog

For Global Voices Online : "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." This chronically misused Kipling phra...

For Global Voice Online : As casualty numbers rise from Sundays' ferry catastrophe on the river Volga, Russians have come to the bitter...

For Global Voices: Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader was arrested today by police in Serbia, the country's president, B...

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...