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…
In the period 1930-55, a directorate ran the Soviet Union’s prison camps. The Gulag Directorate. Today, the prison camps are often referred to as Gulag camps. These camps were important in the Soviet economy in some areas. Ordinary criminal, opposition, ethnic groups and after the war also Germans were placed in the camps. The…
Sweden was neutral during World War II. Nevertheless, one of the greatest war heroes is from Sweden. War hero because he saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. In January 1945, Raoul Wallenberg was captured by the Soviets in Budapest (Hungary). Suspected of being a spy. Officially, the Soviet Union claimed that…
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…