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Per Olaf Salming

Per Olaf Salming

Per Olaf Salming is a Swedish writer based in New York. He writes about design, music, arts and the occasional foreign policy issue. He fancies filter-less French cigarettes with his Vana Tallinn.

Estonian Center Party Minister: “I am not in favor of NATO membership”
Estonia, NewsMay 24, 2017<May 24, 2017

Estonian Center Party Minister: “I am not in favor of NATO membership”

UPDATE 1:45 EST: Postimees reports that Mihhail Korb has resigned his cabinet post. Korb apologized for his comments outside the Prime Minister’s office at…

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Lithuania Grants Asylum to Two Russians Fleeing LGBT Persecution
Lithuania, News, RussiaMay 17, 2017<May 17, 2017

Lithuania Grants Asylum to Two Russians Fleeing LGBT Persecution

Lithuanian authorities have granted asylum to two gay Russian men fleeing persecution in Chechnya, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. The violent and systematic…

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News, RussiaMarch 26, 2017<March 26, 2017

Central Moscow in Navalny Protest Lockdown – Media Blacked Out

VIDEO SHOT BY ALEXEY KOVALEV SHOWS MASSIVE POLICE PRESENCE AND VIOLENT ARREST OF PROTESTORS Things are getting quite tense around Pushkin sq, lots of…

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Sweden Reintroduces Conscription
SwedenMarch 2, 2017<March 2, 2017

Sweden Reintroduces Conscription

The Swedish government has announced that it will reintroduce military conscription for all Swedes born in or after 1999. Suspended 2010, Swedish conscription is being…

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Estonia Adopts Magnitsky Style Global Human Rights Law
Estonia, NewsDecember 8, 2016<December 8, 2016

Estonia Adopts Magnitsky Style Global Human Rights Law

The Estonian Parliament passed a Magnitsky style global human rights amendment Thursday which will allow its government to ban entry into Estonia for anyone who has participated…

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RussiaOctober 14, 2016<October 14, 2016

Chechen Strongman Kadyrov Puts Children Into MMA Fight

Chechen ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been broadly criticized after he entered his three sons, aged 8, 9 and 10, to fight in a caged mixed-martial-arts fight on…

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Russian Fighters Violate Estonian and Finnish Airspace
Estonia, Finland, News, RussiaOctober 7, 2016<October 7, 2016

Russian Fighters Violate Estonian and Finnish Airspace

The Estonian Ministry of Defence says that a Russian SU-27 Flanker, has violated Estonian airspace with its transponders turned off. This is the fifth…

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Finland, News, RussiaSeptember 30, 2016<October 6, 2016

Dutch Investigators Blame Finland

UPDATED OCTOBER 6 Confusion over data that the Finnish government allegedly withheld from Dutch investigators regarding the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17,…

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Culture, MusicSeptember 29, 2016<September 29, 2016

Opera Rejected By Latvian Conductor Premiering in US

A new controversial opera, “State of the Union”, will premiere in Marquette, Michigan tonight after having its European premiere in Latvia cancelled due to…

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Iceland, News, RussiaSeptember 27, 2016<September 27, 2016

Russian Bomber Flies Dangerously Close To Icelandic Airliner

Russian Tupolev Tu-22m nuclear bombers fly into Icelandic air traffic control area and dangerously close to a Stockholm bound civilian airliner. Long-range Russian bombers…

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