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Crimea is Russian

CHRONICLE: Norwegian politicians should go to Crimea, travel around the peninsula and talk to ordinary people. I am convinced that they will find that almost everyone in Crimea supports the reunification with Russia.
bjorndni@gmail.com -

We were attacked by hacker attacks

Norwegian Piraya Film says that they have been subjected to both hacking and smear campaigns to stop The Magnitsky Act. Director Nekrasov maintains that Magnitsky was not a whistleblower, and that Russian police officers have nothing to do with embezzlement of 1,8 billion kroner. [CASE EXPANDED 19.2]
Øystein Windstad -

Seven days in Crimea

The picture Norwegian media consumers get of the situation in Crimea is anything but correct.
Hendrik Weber and Mette Rosenlund -

339 pages Syria

Norway's best Middle East connoisseur Cecilie Hellestveit goes into detail about the greatest conflict of our time in the book of Syria – A Great War in a Small World (Pax, 2017).
Truls Lie -

Russia's "agents": Civil society and survival

What happens to Russia's civil society when non-governmental organizations are banned for foreign aid?
geir.flikke@ilos.uio.no -

One mini-nuclear action in the streets of London

23. November was the 10th year since Alexandr Litvinenko died of polonium poisoning. 
Mette Karlsvik -

Meisingset's misinformation about Ukraine

Arve Meisingset deserves praise for the fact that in the latest issue of Ny Tid he addresses a number of erroneous allegations about the conflict in Ukraine. The problem is that Meisingset itself is responsible for this misinformation. 
bjober@vikenfiber.no -

"The individual must see it as their highest goal to live for others"

Dostoevsky is at least as "contemporary" as many of our actual contemporaries.
Henning Næs -

The King of the Kremlin

A brave Russian voice balances the moral authority of Americans.
Birgitte Bjørnøy -

Massive misinformation about Ukraine

A call to the Norwegian media: Can you please investigate further what actually happened in Kiev in February almost three years ago? 
armei@online.no -
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With 26 minorities, Ukraine is already cosmopolitan

We are talking about the deeper people's soul in Ukraine, about the importance of literature, about pluralism and the relationship between Russians and Ukrainians. Ny Tid met the country's famous author Andrej Kurkov.
Truls Lie -

A memory book from Moscow

Well spread out over near 50 years I have visited Moscow several times, the first time in 1967. It has been reasonably contrasting experiences.
Halle Jørn Hanssen -

Julie, Russia and the narratives

Russia has become a prisoner of its own grand narrative of a hostile West that is looking to defeat them, says Julie Wilhelmsen. She is banned from Russia until 2019.
Sigurd Lydersen -

Putin's power base – unwavering or shaky?

How is an election under a regime that regards democracy as a threat to peace and stability?
Sigurd Lydersen -

Killed in Russian prison?

This documentary has received enormous attention – before it was seen. But what reality is hidden?
Sigurd Lydersen -

1. About making a pact with Putin

In Citizen Khodorkovsky, Khodorkovsky would like to give the impression that he is still a challenger to Putin. He does not convince.
Sigurd Lydersen -
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