Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
After half a century of disagreement, Denmark and Canada have officially ended the conflict known as “Whisky War” over rock island of Hans. Instead, the European and North American nations are now becoming land neighbours. It is the long awaited […]
Norway is that much unhappy with the European NH90 military helicopter, it wants to give them all back to manufacturer NH Industries, alligned with Airbus. It is totally insufficient in operational capabilities, needs an unreasonable amount of maintenance and the […]
Shiamuslim imams in Sweden are actively mediating in mediating in sexual services of its members, investigative journalists of Sweden’s national broadcasting company SVT revealed. In a report published in May 2022 many shiamuslim communities were pimping, illegal by Swedish law. […]
The Swedish government wants to shoot wolves, saying there are too many of them. But the plans to have a licensed wolf hunt are based on numbers that the statistics of the country’s own ministry for rural affairs do not […]
Russia kills its supply of electricity to Finland from 1AM on Saturday 14 May 2022. It’s Moscow’s punishment for Finland’s president and government announcement the Scandinavian country wants to join the NATO military alliance. Featured photo: A Finnish F-18C Hornet […]
Poland is not impressed by Russia’s leader Putin to cut the EU country, as well as Bulgaria, off from natural gas. Spring is coming, there are reserves and – how environmentally friendly it may be – a lot of people […]
The United States operated a radar station on Heiðarfjall mountain for 16 years only, but decades after the military withdrawal from the site, the toxic waste the Americans burried underground is poisining the environment. Featured photo: Heiðarfjall mountain on Iceland […]
The city councils and municipality governments of the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Linköping wants the Danish extreme right organisation Stram Kurs and its leader, riot-provocateur and Koran-burner Rasmus Paludan out. They have asked the Swedish police to no longer […]
The Swedish government worked intensely to have the US government lift sanctions against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It happened in 2018 and 2019, to save jobs at the Deripaska-owned steel factory of Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. But by then […]
Norway restarts building wind power on land, with the Labour government pressing the green button three years after the nation’s parliament said stop. But, critics say onshore wind turbines could actually damage the climate. Featured photo: Wind farm on the […]
