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Шведские компании злоупотребляют законодательством в сфере трудовой миграции, продавая разрешения на работу по ценам доходящим до 4500 долларов. В обмен на это они предлагают несуществующие или плохо оплачиваемые должности. Деньги кладут в карман владельцы компаний. Работники боятся протестовать, потому что рискуют лишиться разрешений, сообщает ( Read more... )

"Det vackraste" (lit. "The Most Beautiful Thing", Eng. "Living in a Dream") is a Swedish love song. It was originally sung by Swedish pop singer Cecilia Vennersten and finished 2nd in the Melodifestivalen 1995, the Swedish selections for Eurovision Song Contest. The song was awarded with a Grammis for Best Song of 1995.

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Более месяца после прибытия в Швецию для начала учебного года многие иностранные студенты все еще пытаются найти себе жилье. Американская студентка Эми Керестец делится историей своих разочарований. Год назад я тоже пытался найти жилье в Упсале, но так и не нашел и был вынужден оставить учебу в Швеции.


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The editors of Newsweek have chosen Finland as the best country of the world. On the second and third places are Sweden and Switzerland. The other countries in the top ten are Australia, Luxemburg, Norway, Canada, Netherlands, Japan and Denmark. The USA is on the 11th place, Russia on 51th. The worst are Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Cameroon.Для того ( Read more... )

The Swedish princess Victoria and her former personal trainer Daniel Westling have been married today in Stockholm. You can see live broadcast on the Swedish Television.



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According to the Swedish Television, Russia dumped chemical weapons and radioactive waste in the Swedish economic zone of the Baltic sea, when it liquidated its military base Karosta in the Latvian city of Liepaja in the 1990s.Россия сбрасывала радиоактивные отходы и нервнопаралитический газ в Балтийском море при эвакуации военной базы Кароста в ( Read more... )

Novye Izvestia has published an article about fire safety in the West, combining reports from its correspondents in Germany, France and Sweden. Here is the part about Sweden. The country had a tragic experience of a deadly fire at a discotheque in Gothenburg in 1998, which killed 63 people. Afterwards fire safety measures have been enhanced and an ( Read more... )

"I worked for Saddam". Muhamed Kemal Abed, who developed nuclear, biological and chemical weapons for Saddam Hussein, including the gas which killed over 5000 Kurds in the city of Halabja, in Northern Iraq, has got an asylum in Sweden. This is an article from the Swedish newspaper Expressen (30 Nov. 2009), which I translated into Russian.


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In his recent book, Swedish writer and journalist Henrik Arnstad compares marshall Carl Gustaf Mannerheim to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. According to Arnstad, it is completely unique that Finns still honour a brother-in-arms of the Nazi dictator. He says that Finland could use two possibilities in the Second World War. Firstly, allow German ( Read more... )