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Activists say public debate has been shut down by overhyped claims of imminent war since Ukraine invasion

"Not even Putin can concoct some imperial Russian myth that Sweden is within Russia's holy borders," said prominent leftwing intellectual and editor of the Dala-Demokraten newspaper, Göran Greider.

 Representation of the Autonomous Administration of the North and East Syria held in Sweden, a series of meetings with officials and political entities, within the framework of diplomatic efforts to strengthen the relations and the convergence of views on the Syrian file and the situation in the north and east of Syria.

ThIS year’s World Environment Day is unique in many ways. We are in the midst of an unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic that has paralysed every country on our planet. It is one of the rarest events

IMAGE:  Environmental Policy and Law special issue - Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Better Common Environmental Future. "We need to accept with all humility our sacred duty for the care,... view more  Credit: IOS Press Amsterdam, June 2, 2021 - On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm conference that created the United Nations Environmental Programme, it is clear that the global environmental situation has only deteriorated. In "Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Bette...

Mandalay University graduates bow their heads as they hold posters of Mya Thwet Thwet Khine, a 19-year-old woman fatally shot by police on February 9 in Naypyidaw, during an anti-coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, February 14, 2021.  © 2021 AP Photo Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate daily against the military junta in Burma (also known as Myanmar). Many Burmese people have expressed their opposition to the militarys takeover of the democratically e...

Jons Jakob Berzelius (1799–1848) Source: © Apic/Getty Images Swedish chemist considered one of the founders of modern chemistry Several years ago an old family friend in Italy sent me a four-volume set of Jöns Jakob Berzelius’ Textbook of Chemistry that she had recently inherited from her brother with a card saying ‘Only you can truly appreciate these’. Utterly delighted, I didn’t give the note much thought, but instead dived into the books, delighting in the tables of densities an...