Recently I was watching an episode of Rapport from December 1991. Rapport is the Swedish public service news program. Via SVT, one can watch older episodes about different topics and events. This one is about the Maastricht agreement and the… Read More »Integration and disintegration of Europe 1991
Recently I was watching an episode of Rapport from December 1991. Rapport is the Swedish public service news program. Via SVT, one can watch older episodes about different topics and events. This one is about the Maastricht agreement and the… Read More »Sweden – yes to the EU but no to the Euro
Recently I was watching a video called “A Black Cauldron” via YouTube. As usual, my ambition with this blog is to write about what happened in the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union by analysing different sources, thereby not glorifying… Read More »Sarajevo in spring and summer 1992
Events as demonstrations, violence and controversies during the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle during November-December 1999 came to be known as “the Battle for Seattle”. Relevant data as official documents, photos, notes and other stuff can be read and… Read More »“Battle for Seattle” files
Duško Kondor was a human rights activist during and after the war in Bosnia. He was born and lived in the city of Bijeljina, were among the worst crimes during the war occurred in 1992. During the war, Duško had… Read More »Good humans in the time of evil – Duško Kondor
Why do many people in Balkans believe that Corona does not exist and that 5G is a conspiracy connected to Bill Gates? Recently, I read an article by weekly columnist Hynek Pallas who often writes about Central Europe in Swedish speaking… Read More »Neo-liberalism, Soros and CIA – conspiracy theories in areas of ex-Yugoslavia and the Soviet union
I was watching a video clip via Youtube called “Soviet Soldier”. The clip is from 1991, and I am unsure about the primary source since the clip seems to be either from some documentary movie or news session. Also, I… Read More »The Soviet Soldier
Denna artikel baseras på boken “Svenskt pansar. 90 år av svenskt stridsfordonsutveckling” I samband med det kalla krigets slut fanns det tankar att Försvarsmakten skulle köpa och skaffa den sovjetiska stridsvagnen modell T-80. Syftet var att T-80 skulle bli standardmodell… Read More »När hotstridsvagnen kom till Sverige
Stockholm 2020-11-21 Recently I was watching several YouTube videos about games for the Microsoft DOS operative system. Watching the videos felt very nostalgic because I recognised many games that I used to play mostly during the end of 1990s and… Read More »DOS Games Nostalgia
Recently I received for my first “crypto-card” -Wirex. I am following this trend at the moment and I decided to start with Wirex mainly because I can use it within the EU, as during travels and vacations. Also, Wirex has… Read More »Time for Wirex
Stockholm 2020-10-06 Yesterday I became a citizen of the SEEDS community, or how I like to call it – SEEDIZEN. I joined SEEDS in March 2020 after being introduced to the community by entrepreneur Tomas Bjoerkman. One aspect I immediately… Read More »Becoming a SEEDIZEN
This summer I have spent lot of time playing Player Unknown’s Battleground also known as “PUBG”. Mostly I am playing this game via the app/smartphone version. One aspect that the game is often presented and identified by is the K6-3… Read More »PUBG-helmet
As a military historian, I am used to reading different books reflecting on various topics and time periods. This summer I read a book that I find as very unique due to its unusual topic — binoculars. As a former military officer… Read More »Swedish Military Binoculars
Recently I read the book “Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840–1914” by historian Edin Hajdarpasic. The book is mainly about the creation and implementation of early nationalism ideas in Europe during the 19th century and how… Read More »Whose Bosnia?
Recently, liberal and optimist intellectual Johan Norberg published a short book on Swedish “Viruset och världen: Är det nu globaliseringen dör?” (The virus and the world: Is it now that globalization dies?” The book contains many references to arguments and… Read More »“Openess is our strength”
Democracy is more than just a system of government; it is a framework for achieving equitable, inclusive, and sustainable societies. To ensure its longevity and effectiveness, certain foundational blocks must be firmly in place. These components not only support the… Read More »Building blocks of a sustainable democracy
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Now, they show that such companies have been studied now for almost four decades and economically, they perform well actually, they on average outperform when it comes to productivity and sales and growth companies that are governed by outside capital,… Read More »Economic democracy and Sweden
Link: https://twitter.com/EmirOFilipovic/status/1359986643130793992 The photo above is from 2014 and taken in the municipality of Fojnica, in Central Bosnia. In the photo, one can see symbols, texts, and official information that in several ways are contradicting and go against each other… Read More »Post-communist visual in Bosnia-Herzegovina
