On Monday at the course of Swedish I made a speech about my home country, Québec.Idag ska jag berätta om mitt hemland. Inte om Ryssland, men mitt annat hemland, som ligger i Nordamerika. Där bor 7,5 million människor ( Read more... )

Taking in the account the scale of the Winter war between the USSR and Finland (1939-40), Finland took few Soviet war prisoners, about 6000. Many Soviet prisoners were either in a bad shape, or they were killed before reaching concentration camps. The death rate in camps was as high as 30%. Also, Finns let many Russians die in forests instead of ( Read more... )

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... )

Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's president from 1994 to 2000 and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has written an excellent article in defense of teaching and using the Swedish language in Finland. Swedish should be taught already in the early stage of the secondary school, says Ahtisaari. At present, the study of Swedish begins in the 7th form, and it is ( Read more... )

Are new Medvedev's initiatives to improve morals in Russia, such as the closure of casinos and the anti-alcohol campaign, only intended to keep up appearances or is it a real effort to distance from the Prime Minister? It will be interesting to see, writes the Moscow correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. On the photo a passerby is ( Read more... )

The shortage of student housing in Sweden is acute. In Lund the student union has put up two big military tents with sleeping places. The worst situation is in big cities. In Stockholm 45,000 students are waiting in the housing queue and in Gothenburg the queue has doubled.


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This year 11% more students have been admitted to the Uppsala University compared with the last year, but the housing capacity for them has not changed. This results in several months of queuing for accommodation. An article from the student union newspaper.Trots att antalet studenter nu ökar igen är inga nya större bostadsprojekt på gång. En mer ( Read more... )

Three Russian women led three networks, in which over 200 prostitutes were involved. The networks operated over the entire Finland, from Helsinki to Rovaniemi. The police have busted their activity, but cannot reach the main gangster "Sasha", who hangs out in St. Petersburg. "If Russia were an EU country, the key people would stand to the law in a ( Read more... )

INTEGRATION - FROM FORK TO GEOMETRY. New pupils in a refugee education class in Vasa, Finland. Simagol Muhammad is doing her second school week. In Afghanistan she went to a Koran school and is familiar with the alphabet. For Yasmin Hassan from Somali this is the first school day. Most of the pupils have no idea about their age. Every second pupil ( Read more... )

Nabokov in a skirt. About modern Russian writer Olga Slavnikova.


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