It’s been 10 years since we experienced what changed from a completely normal summer day, to a nightmare no one will forget. I am writing this blog for those who were actually so young that they only have faint memories of the day. This is what my family and I experienced on 22 July…
On October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was found shot and killed in the elevator where she lived in Moscow. The murder of the famous journalist and author created a great deal of attention. A few years later, 5 men were sentenced to prison for the murder. These are supposed to be known assassins. It…
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…
There are reports of large movements of Russian troops to the border with Ukraine. The countries have in reality been at war since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and occupied parts of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. The movements of Russian troops are so great that the US has put its forces in Europe…
The military coup in Myanmar on 1 February has become a bloody takeover by the military who rule the country with an iron fist. Over 500 civilians have been killed by the military’s brutality, children are shot in the open and the violence does not seem to be abating. The question is, how can…