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…
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…
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…
Then what most people expected happened. Alexei Navalny was arrested by the police shortly after the plane landed at Moscow airport this evening. Allegedly, he was arrested for violating the reporting requirement that was part of the release condition from a previous sentence. Navalny returned to Russia after his stay in Germany following an…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, September 2 that Alexei Navalny was attempted murdered with a nerve agent. She says there is no doubt that an attempt was made on Navalny’s life. According to the German newspaper Spiegel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Russian ambassador to explain the findings of the…