Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
On Sunday 26 January 2025, yet another Baltic Sea communications cable was found damaged, this time one between Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland. The cable is owned by the Latvian state-company for TV and radio. Swedish authorities have […]
Latvia is buying 42 ASCOD 2 infantry fighting vehicles from the Spanish division of General Dynamics Land Systems. The deal, announced on 30 January 2025, is worth EUR 370 million and. The Latvian order is the outcome of a tender […]
Russia has switched gear in its GPS jamming in Norway. Especially spoofing is now more often used, according to a report of the Norwegian broadcasting agency NRK. From about 1,400 metres up in the air, aeroplanes are deliberately being fed […]
Hjemmeværnet, the Danish Home Guard, commissioned two new search and surveillance plane into service. The two Twin Otters, produced by De Havilland Canada, are replacing two leased Britten-Norman Defender aircraft. The Twin Otters have been especially equipped for patrol duties, […]
The man who has repeatedly put the Quran on fire in Sweden, Iraqi born Salwan Momika, has been shot and killed on Wednesday 29 January 2025 shortly after 23:00 on the balcony of his apartment in Södertälje, a city south […]
Lithuanian Deputy Finance Minister Valentin Gavrilov resigned on 28 January, after being accused of supporting Russia. Gavrilov has Russian social media accounts and seemed to support the celebration of Soviet Victory Day, Lithuanian media report. On his Facebook page he […]
The year 2025 starts violently in Sweden. During a press conference in Stockholm on 29 January, the Swedish police say they have registered 30 attacks with explosive devices in January alone. Meaning: more than one detonation per day. Most of […]
A striking majority of the Greenlanders would vote “no” to new American president Donald Trump’s power play to make Greenland the next state of the United States. According to a poll done on behalf of the Danish newspaper Berlingske and […]
The world’s largest public fund, Norway’s Oljefundet, did very well in 2024. The value increased by almost EUR 340 billion (NOK 4,000) in a year time. In 2024, the Oil Fund had more than 11,000 investments in companies and projects […]
Finnish airport authorities say that aeroplane flights were jammed 2,800 times by Russia over the course of 2024, Finnish media corporation Uutissuomalainen reports. A few years ago, aeroplanes mainly relied on GPS in their approach, landings and take-offs of airports. […]
Four Polish shoulders have been charged of negligence of duty after they failed to offload 240 anti-tank mines from a train near the city of Szczecin, in the north of the country. The mines travelled on for 10 days – […]
Sweden buys 44 new Leopard 2 A8 battle tanks and will modernise its 66 existing Leopard 2 tanks to a similar standard. The Swedish government announced this EUR 1.9 billion investment this week, emphasizing that by 2031 the Swedish Armed […]
