Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
Russia has taken renewed interest in the island of Bornholm, strategically located in the Baltic Sea, and part of Denmark. 76 years after the last Soviet troops left, Moscow still feels it has a say in what happens on the […]
With Russian forces massing on the border with Ukraine and the Russian navy sending more amphibious landing vessels into the Baltic Sea, by mid-January 2022 Sweden reacted. Troops were rushed to Gotland, the Baltic Sea’s most strategic island, to mark […]
As a history buff I know Gdańsk mainly as the port city of resistance, of uprising. Standing strong the people of the Baltic Sea city first led in the fall of Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka in the 1970s. In […]
Denmark is growing, without spending money or launching a military operation. 63 acres of land has been added to the country, by 11 islands as a gift from mother Nature. Sea flow and cluttering of sand, e.g. after storms, have […]
The Swedish armed forces are investigating photos and witness accounts of a possible foreign submarine that suddenly turned up near Stockholm. A defence spokesperson announced this on Friday. Images taken in mid-April by a Swedish family at their holiday home […]