Finland’s evacuation operation in Kabul has ended, with around 340 people flown out. Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) announced the conclusion of operations at a press conference on Thursday evening, shortly after suicide attacks at the airport had killed scores of people. Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen (Cen) said that operationsContinue Reading

Terrori-iskun uhka varjostaa jo ennestään kaoottista evakuointia Kabulin kentältä. Yhdysvallat, Britannia ja Australia ovat kehottaneet kansalaisiaan poistumaan välittömästi alueelta. Isis-K eli Isis-Khorasan on terroristijärjestön pieni haara, joka on tehnyt tuhoisia iskuja Afganistanissa ja Pakistanissa. Useat maat varoittavat terrori-iskun uhasta Afganistan pääkaupungin Kabulin lentokentällä. Yhdysvallat, Britannia ja Australia ovat kehottaneet kentänContinue Reading

Russian-speaking people in Estonia and Latvia live in the Russian world, writer and social anthropologist Erika Fatland writes in Norway’s largest daily Aftenposten. In an article entitled “Trapped in the Kremlin’s long shadows” (“Fanget i Kremls lange skygger”), Fatland says that thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union,Continue Reading

Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has called on Lithuania to respect its international human rights commitments in the current migration crisis, and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has said in response that irregular migrants attempting to crossing into the country can hardly be considered refugees. “ItContinue Reading

Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to quit

PM Stefan Lofven said he plans to step down as leader of the Social Democratic Party and as prime minister. The announcement comes ahead of parliamentary elections in 2022. In a move that appears to have caught Sweden off guard, the country’s prime minister, Stefan Lofven, said he intends to stepContinue Reading