When guitarist Aleksandr “Sasja” Orlov strikes the first chords of Noize MC’s song “Swan Lake Cooperative,” St. Petersburg’s busy main street, Nevsky Prospekt, vibrates. That same year, the song was banned by a Russian court as “extremist” – and the performance ends with the band members being arrested by police in front of hundreds of young audience members who jump up and sing along to the chorus:Where have you been for eight years, you damn beasts? / I want to see ballet, watch the swans dance. / May the uncle tremble in fear of his cooperative “Zero” / Away from…
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This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text.Do you dream of your own island? The question comes via email from the large housing construction site. For a moment I thought it was the most surreal ad of the month.Then I read about Visit Sweden’s new “Your Swedish Island” campaign. There, international tourists can compete for the right to use their own Swedish island for a year.To promote nature tourism, five uninhabited small destinations will be raffled off, managed by the Norwegian Real Estate Agency. The competition is open to foreign citizens aged 18…
The Paralympics will open in Verona on Friday, March 6th. When it’s time for the Paralympics, the Olympics have already been over for about two weeks.19-year-old cross-country skier Ellen Westerlund is one of those included in the Swedish squad. She thinks it’s good that the Paralympics are their own event.- I think it’s good, especially in the context of the Paralympics. Because then we are the focus of the Paralympics, so to speak, and it’s a lot of fun that so much attention is paid to the topic.But there are also other contexts in which she would like to integrate…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text.The doctor smears small drops of cold cream onto my skin and rubs them carefully, like a child with finger paints. His uncoordinated strands of hair swing wildly as he nods and hums to himself. Nick and hum.He runs an electronic magnifying glass over my spots, focusing his gaze carefully and precisely on my body so that every conceivable thought of catastrophe has time to be released from his grunting syllables. Four hundred futures pass the test and all are crap.I forced my fingers…
1. Tell us about your performance this spring.2. Why do you want to do performing arts?3. What do you think is missing from Swedish theater life?Julia Ahndoril. Photo: Amelie KarlsbroJulia AhndorilPlaywright. Wrote the play “Elevator,” which is part of Länk 2026, the National Theater’s project for newly written plays for young theater ensembles.1. “Elevator” is a rather brutal piece that is about cruel violence that can almost only occur in groups – and about the very different ways two siblings deal with great grief.2. Because it is a magical art form. In a world in which we seem to be…
After the home defeat (77:88) against the same opponent last Friday, the conditions were crystal clear. Estonia had to be defeated in Tallinn for Blågult to have a possible chance of participating in the 2027 Basketball World Cup in Qatar.It also started promisingly, with Sweden leading at the start of the game before the Estonians were able to get back into the game. At halftime the score was 38:38.The teams then played a game that was obviously going to turn into a big drama. With eight minutes left in the final quarter, the score was still tied, 58-58. Then Sweden…
This is an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter. The author is responsible for the opinions in the article.As of April 1st, the mortgage cap will be raised from 85 to 90 percent. It is a very welcome measure, which will make it easier for many first-time buyers to enter the housing market. At the same time, taking out housing loans after the original purchase of the home – so-called supplementary loans – will be more strictly restricted than before. In the future, the sum of the original loan (minus the repayments made on it) and additional loans may not exceed…
It has become dark in the refugee camp and the crickets are singing. Im Nang and his family prepare for the night. Photo: Alexander MahmoudShock cheeky. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were turned upside down this summer when a violent border conflict broke out between Cambodia and Thailand. Over half a million have had to leave their homes and around 75,000 have not yet been able to return.See the report: They fled when Thailand attacked with Swedish warplanes”Once an ore miner, always an ore miner. I thought I would be born and die in Malmberget,” says Tage…
After the double Olympic gold in Italy, where one of the victories came in the skiathlon, expectations for Frida Karlsson were high before the race. At the Olympics, Karlsson won by 51 seconds.However, the upload could have been better. Karlsson had to sit out the final race of the Olympics, the five-mile race, and has just recovered from a feverish illness.It may have been the consequences that left their mark when there was a long sprint battle at the restart of the World Championships in Falun on Sunday. Karlsson had the best position at the front of the race, but…
The industry organization Mobility Sweden has examined how the fuel costs for an electric car will compare to a petrol and diesel car in 2025.The overview shows: Although petrol and diesel prices have fallen significantly in recent years, partly due to reduced reduction obligations, it is still cheapest to drive an electric car.Those who charge at home save the most. Here the average price per mile in 2025 was between SEK 2.20 and SEK 3.70. The price was cheapest in the north and most expensive in the south.It can be compared with The average price of petrol and diesel last…
Who paid?Something that can both help and kill David Ellison’s purchase are the financiers behind the $110 billion bid – which ultimately won the bidding war against streaming giant Netflix.It has been known for months that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was financially involved in the deal. The Trump family’s investments and good relations between the Ellison and Trump families could make it easier for the purchase to move through American bureaucracy.Analysts at investment firm Raymond James assess Paramount-Skydance’s “political position with the current American administration as much stronger than that of Netflix” and believe that this gives the…
Before this year’s Vasalopp, Norwegian Emilie Fleten put pressure on last year’s winner Stina Nilsson as favorites, but also mentioned that she saw herself as one of the favorites. And when the race was over, she was the dominant winner.“It was tough from start to finish,” Fleten tells SVT.It snowed on the tracks overnight and on Sunday morning, which affected traffic. It wasn’t a fast race. Fleten’s winning time was just over half an hour slower than Nilsson’s in 2025.The Norwegian drove the mansion for a long time, although she sometimes had the feeling that it was going very slowly.-…
How does this affect the oil market?We will get a real answer late Sunday evening when the oil market opens for the first time since Iran confirmed its first bombings. However, there are already signs that there could be a strong reaction this time. The Saudi stock market started in the red on Sunday and the British bank Barclays, for example, raised its forecast for North Sea oil to $80 a barrel on Friday, only to promptly raise it again to $100 the following day.Such a price level has not been seen since the energy crisis year of 2022 and…
It took almost a full day for Iran to officially confirm that its supreme leader since 1989, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been killed by Israel’s bombing of the capital Tehran. Warplanes are said to have fired no fewer than 30 projectiles at the Ayatollah’s residence alone, which satellite images show in utter destruction.Well-informed sources tell the Wall Street Journal that intelligence agencies from close allies the United States and Israel have long been on the lookout for a rare occasion when the leadership of arch-enemy Iran gathers in one place. Just on Saturday morning, according to Israeli officials, three such…
Crime novels are often Swedish crime novelsThe English word crime seems to be sometimes used in Swedish. For example, I see John Ajvide Lindqvist described as Horror and crime writer. Can we use the word? crime in a message text in Swedish?Kennethcrime is a short form of Crime stories and is sometimes used in Swedish texts to refer to the commonly mentioned genre of fiction Detective story. The genre includes, for example, suspense novels, crime novels, crime novels and thrillers.Swedish booksellers often use just Detective story or Crime novels and crime novels as a name for this genre. In many…
Electric car bonusThere are different opinions about who should be eligible for a subsidy to buy an electric car and how much the subsidy should be.When the previous climate bonus was abolished at the end of 2022, it was met with criticism from both environmental associations and automotive industry associations. A new electric car premium was proposed in 2025, which had to be revised after criticism from the EU. The new requirements include, among other things, that you live in a rural community, live in an area with limited access to public transport and have a household income of up…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text.Donald Trump was elected President of the United States twice on a single positive promise: peace instead of eternal war. Before the 2016 election, he expressed what had become clear to many Americans: Washington’s politicians and generals would have done more good lying on the beach and sunning themselves than when they invaded Iraq in 2003 in response to al-Qaeda terrorism two years earlier.This was a popular message at the time and it was true. The question today is how to reconcile this with…
Risberg after 35 kilometersSwedish skier Oskar Kardin had to change skis before the lead fell to Risberg. He signaled during the race that he had problems with his left ski and got a new one after almost 35 kilometers.- In order for you to change the ski, there must be something wrong with the ski. It also applies that you must not seek unauthorized help from anyone else when putting on the binding or similar. You have to do it yourself, says SVT expert Anders Blomquist on the show.It was Alvar Myhlback’s father Petter Myhlback, the leader of the Lager…
1) Media development.After Ebba Andersson’s fall in the relay, there was a debate about whether the criticism of the skiers was too mean. Yes, she rode badly up to the sedan chair. Yes, she was stiff and cowardly and clumsy when she fell. Everyone could see that. But at least she pulled herself together and luckily avoided the same treatment that hockey goaltender Tommy Salo received after another Olympic fiasco.2) The football country.Inter leads the Italian football league by far. Then a team from north of the Arctic Circle came and it was time for thanks and goodbye in the…
The network of Iranian-backed allies that Khamenei built in the years following the eight-year Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) and after Khomeini’s death in 1989 dominated the Middle East for decades. The “Axis of Resistance” centered around Iran’s supreme leader consisted of the Syrian Assad regime, the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, several Shiite militias in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen.With the help of these allies, all armed, trained and financed by Tehran, Iran under Khamenei became a key player in the Sunni Arab world and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Like almost a quarter of Iran’s population,…