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17 May 2012

Russia: NHL Stars Return to 2012 World Hockey Championship

Written by Donna Welles · RuNet Echo

Undefeated after seven games, and boasting an All-Star lineup, the Russian national team will face Norway in the quarterfinal round of the 2012 World Ice Hockey Championship. Many bloggers have framed the story as a homecoming for Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin, with others reflecting on their complicated past in Russian international competition.

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18 April 2012

Sweden: Culture Minister in ‘Racist Cake' Art Controversy

Written by Julie Owono · Arts & Culture, Governance

The Swedish Culture Minister's tasting of the controversial 'Painful Cake', representing the body of an African woman, at an art exhibition preview in Stockholm has provoked online reactions over alleged racism. Julie Owono reports.

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15 April 2012

Sweden: Visiting Rinkeby, Stockholm's Immigrant Ghetto

Written by محمد العامر · Translated by Mohammed Alamer · Ethnicity & Race, Migration & Immigration

The Rinkeby district of Stockholm, Sweden is famous for its high concentration of immigrants. Curious outsiders have documented their visits.

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14 March 2012

Europe: Will ACTA Treaty Pass After Protests?

Written by Suzanne Lehn · Translated by Danielle Martineau · Governance, Law

The ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty (ACTA) by the European Parliament has been delayed in expectation of an opinion from the European Court of Justice on its conformity with fundamental rights.

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15 January 2012

Video Highlights: Activism, Freedom of Speech, Identity and Culture

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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28 December 2011

Ethiopia: Swedish Journalists Handed 11-Year Prison Sentence

Written by Sven Hultberg Carlsson · Freedom of Speech, Human Rights

An Ethiopian court handed prison sentences of 11 years on Tuesday 27 December to Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, two Swedish journalists accused of supporting terrorism in the country.

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23 December 2011

Ethiopia: Swedish Journalists Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges

Written by Sven Hultberg Carlsson · Freedom of Speech, Governance

The verdict against two Swedish journalists, Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, detained in Ethiopia has caused strong reactions from defenders of press freedom. The judge in the case has called for a sentence of at least 15 years imprisonment to be handed down on 27 December.

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22 October 2011

Ethiopia: Netizens Shine Spotlight on Trial of Swedish Journalists

Written by Endalk · Human Rights, Law

The trial of two Swedish journalists accused of terrorism in Ethiopia after being detained during a battle between government troops and rebels started on Tuesday. The story has become a hot topic of discussion in both traditional media and online communities worldwide.

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13 September 2010

Global: If there is no water, there is no life

Written by Victor Kaonga · Development, Environment

The Twentieth gathering for the World Water Week (WWW) took place in Sweden's Capital Stockholm from the 5th to the 11th of September 2010 with the theme The Water Quality Challenge-Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement. According to the organisers, “urbanisation, agriculture, industry and climate change exert mounting pressure on both the quantity and quality of our water resources.”

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30 March 2010

Sweden: Parliament Recognizes the Assyrian Genocide

Written by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia · History, Human Rights

The Swedish Parliament has recognized as genocide the massacres that took place within the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1920 against the Armenian, Assyrian and Pontic Greek population - an episode that is also referred to as "Seyfo" by the Assyrian Diaspora. Bloggers react to this development in this post.

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Updates about Sweden

17 August 2011

German

Albatros of Litauen blog reports about [ger] Swedish celebrations of 20 years of independence for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and how Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, apologised to his Baltic colleagues for recognizing soviet annexation during World War II.

• Vilhelm Konnander

18 October 2010

English

Katerina Todorovska wrote [MKD] on the Macedonia in the European Union blog about EU's imperfect record on LGBT rights and its positive influence in relation to starting the debate and improving tolerance in the Western Balkans, as Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia strive to join this supranational structure.

• Filip Stojanovski

26 September 2010

English

Gulara Azimzadeh's blog reports that seven journalists from Azerbaijan will visit Stockholm to see how the media covered the 2010 elections in Sweden. The journalists were selected after a competition held by the Azerbaijan Media Center as the country prepares for its own parliamentary vote this November and recounts the reaction from one of the fortunate winners.

• Aygun Janmammadova

6 June 2010

English

Roba from Jordan published pictures from different demonstrations world wide against Israel's last attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, in Holland, Greece, Egypt, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sweden, France, Turkey, India, Italy, Canada, Spain, Belgium, United States, Bulgaria and Austria.

• Eman AbdElRahman

5 June 2010

German

Litauen writes about [GER] the Council of the Baltic Sea states and how this organization is becoming increasingly superfluous as basis for Baltic Sea cooperation.

• Vilhelm Konnander

16 November 2009

English

Nordic Voices writes about Finland's “language issue.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

24 May 2009

English

Alexandra Sandels, from MENASSAT, writes her interview with Walid Al-Saqaf, a Sweden-based Yemeni Internet expert, regarding the launch of his new program Al-Kasir (means the circumventer in Arabic) - during a summit on blogging in Cairo which was entitled “Blogging for the Future“.
Al-Kasir, which is currently available in its Beta test version, is a new software aiming to circumvent web censorship in the Middle East and beyond, where it allows Internet users to access blocked websites.
You can also read Esra'a's post on Mideast Youth on why Al-Kasir is different from other similar tools, and how it’s beneficial to users in the Middle East.

• Eman AbdElRahman

2 March 2009

English

LaurenceJarvikOnline comments on a Wall Street Journal story on how the family of Swedish World War II diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, suffered from the uncertainty of his destiny in soviet captivity.

• Vilhelm Konnander

18 February 2009

English

Vilhelm Konnander posts his reflections on Russia-focused blogging and “policy-media interaction”: “So, by the end of the day, there is little room for deviance as the public policy-media discourse evolves. When one, to the contrary, gets one's message across, there is no saying how it will be processed by its recipients, given the fundamental predisposition to interpret Russia in very simplified terms. […] At least, blogs give each and everyone the opportunity to have his or her say, even though alternative facts and hypotheses risk getting lost in cyberspace.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

7 February 2009

Russian

Russian Blog shares a vegetarian borscht recipe.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Comments on "Sweden"

Sweden: Culture Minister in 'Racist Cake' Art Controversy

Very bad taste!!!!!! what a shame!!!
Outrageous cake!

I agree that the West has a tendency to hold countries outside it to moral standards that countries within it...
Since they were on journalistic assignment, their association with the ONLF should not be seen as conspiring or supporting terrorist...
Why is it that the west sees everything in Africa as bad. These two individuals had their chances in court....