My considerations and opinions about things outside Norway’s borders
Recently, Belarus’s main opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison for organizing demonstrations ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Several others have been sentenced to long prison terms for the same as Sergei Tikhanovsky. Sergei Tikhanovsky was the foremost counter -candidate of the sitting Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko until he…
Where do all the refugees who are now on the border between Belarus and Poland come from? Most probably they were brought by Belarus with two purposes. One is to retaliate against EU sanctions against Belarus after the authorities in Belarus forced a passenger plane to land in Minsk in order to arrest a…
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently said he wanted a peaceful reunification with Taiwan. Taiwan has never formally declared its independence from China. The reason why Taiwan has not declared independence is simple. Such a declaration will lead to an even more tense relationship between the countries and will probably lead to China taking military…
What will Afghanistan look like under the Taliban? What will everyday life be like for women, what about human rights? There are many questions after the Taliban’s sudden takeover of power in Afghanistan. What seems certain is that the US and NATO’s withdrawal was poorly thought out and went too quickly. The entire 20-year…
Sunday 23 May will go down in the history books of international civil aviation. Belarus forced a Ryanair flight to land against its will in Minsk. On the plane was the Belarusian journalist Roman Pratasevich, who is critical of President Alexander Lukashenko. Like most other central figures in Belarus, Roman Pratasevich is accused of…
According to the UN General Assembly’s resolution of 2010, every person on earth has the right to clean water and good sanitary conditions. Water scarcity is one of the biggest problems of our time and the seed of conflicts. For those of us who live in Norway, water is something we don’t think about…