Bill Browder: @svt Swedish television has identified potential Russian money laundering of $5.8 billion going through Swedbank in Sweden. Of this $26 million was connected to the crime that Sergei Magnitsky exposed and was killed over
2 day agoNorway: 40 Commando Royal Marines Hosted Defence Secretary @GavinWilliamson in Arctic Circle today as he announced further detail on the upcoming Arctic Strategy which will see 1000+ RMs deploying annually to Northern Norway for the next 10 years.
2 day agoA man has been arrested after a suspected murder - the police have blocked off housing in Järna.
The all-parties Swedish defense commission proposes a substantial increase of the armed forces, especially the army.
Stoltenberg condemns GPS jamming from Kola
1 week agoNATO SG @jensstoltenberg today called GPS jamming "dangerous and irresponsible", as it can affect civil aviation, emergency services, search and rescue. He made clear that NATO will continue to raise air safety issues with Russia.
Norwegian consul declared persona non grata. The expulsion note has already been forwarded to the Norwegian ambassador. Move came after The Polish consul in Norway, Sławomir Kowalski, was declared persona non grata in this country.
Small amounts of radioactive iodine were measured at the air-filtering station in Skibotn, the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority DSA reports. Source unknown, however with a half-life of only seven days, iodine-131 means the release has happened recently
Construction workers frustrated with GPS jamming near border to Russia
1 week agoIranian protesters in Sweden: "Reza Shah, bless you." "Long live the Shah."
1 week agoView of two big cyclones over the N Atlantic and the North Sea, respectively. Textbook Shapiro-Keyser morphology on the cyclone in the N Atlantic. Currently at 975 mbar, it has dropped by 31 mbar in the past 24 hours -> bombogenesis. Image: NASA WorldView
Russia will not leave without reaction of Norway’s actions on escalation of tension in the Arctic - MFA
DY4321 Stairs and bus in place but passengers are not allowed to disembark yet
1 week agoThe Swedish swimming team is on board the plane, according to SVT
Norwegian flight to Nice just returned to Stockholm due to a bomb threat
Swedish Defense Research Agency: "Russia previously focused on managing small-scale conflicts; it practices how to start and conduct large-scale war."
Bomb threat at The passenger plane from Norwegian. Now the aircraft - with 169 people on board - is returning to Arlanda.
Iceland supports @jguaido as the Interim President of Venezuela. Free and fair elections should be called and the will of the people respected.
Finland backs Guaidó as Venezuela interim president
Denmark recognises the President of the National Assembly @jguaido as the interim President of Venezuela until new free and democratic elections take place.
France and Sweden recognize Juan Guaidó as legitimate president of Venezuela
Sweden's response to Russian activity in the Baltic: Bring back the draft, call up 3,700 conscripts in 2018 and increase that to 8,000 a year by 2022
Ukrainian Ambassador to Finland 46-year-old Andrey Olefirov @AndriiOlefirov was transported from Finland to Ukraine after a serious injury in September and long-term treatment
Government of Ukraine Airbus A319 UR-ABA UKN1120
3 week ago-38.7°C measured in Sodankylä today is the lowest temperature recorded in Finland and apparently in the whole Europe (excl. Russia) in winter 2018/2019.
The Swedish military says a Russian reconnaissance plane escorted by two Russian fighter jets briefly violated Sweden's air space on the country's Baltic Sea coast.
Two Turkish citizens and former teachers at Afghan-Turk schools, Yulmaz Aitin and Sami Yaoz, who were under house arrest in Kabul for more than a year, are granted asylum in Sweden and left Afghanistan, sources confirmed to TOLOnews.
Oslo knifeman completely changes testimony: he rejects any religious-political motivation and says he wasn't himself at the time of the stabbing. He condemns terrorism and says he is an atheist
The Russian that is under investigation for an act of terror has been talking about the lorry attacks in Paris and Germany.
Norwegian police: We deal with the stabbing attack yesterday as a terrorist act
