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Politics (Sweden)

The Nordbalt submarine power cable between Klaipėda in Lithuania and Nybro in Sweden. (Nick Näslund/Swedish Radio)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Security expert: “Russia seeks to block Baltic energy independence”

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 13:15 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 21:00
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Sweden is making diplomatic protests following repeated disruptions by Russian warships of cable-laying work in the Baltic – an action

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A Swedish Navy fast-attack craft patrols in the the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, on October 18 2014. (Pontus Lundahl/AFP/Getty Images)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden: Defence talks continue without the Liberals

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 13:22
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In the ongoing cross-party talks about the future of the Swedish military, the government has offered to review the Armed

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(L-R) Finland's Defence Minister Carl Haglund, Sweden's counterpart Peter Hultqvist, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom and Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja pose for a photo upon arrival for a dinner at the government headquarters Rosenbad, in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 10, 2014. (Pontus Lundahl/AFP/Getty Images)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden and Finland to bolster military co-operation

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 16:23 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 20:54
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Sweden and Finland are to intensify their military co-operation, both country’s defence ministers announced on Tuesday. A joint study by

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Parliament building Stockholm, Sweden. (iStock)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s government scared of NATO facts: Moderates Party

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 16:58 — Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 21:39
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Representatives from all of Sweden’s parliamentary political parties are discussing security policy in the Swedish parliament Thursday, one of the

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General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s dairy farmers hit hard by sanctions against Russia

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 21:52 — Last Updated: Friday, January 16, 2015 at 22:14
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Swedish dairy farmers are facing a tough time because of international politics. Russia has stopped the importation of milk products

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Swedish Commander-in-Chief Sverker Goransson talks to media on October 21, 2014. (Pontus Lundahl /AFP/Getty Images)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

“Not enough money for Sweden’s defence” says armed forces commander

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 20:27 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 21:49
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The budget proposed for efforts to strengthen Sweden’s defence would not even cover policy goals set out back in 2009,

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This is a Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 file photo provided by Britain's Royal Air Force of a Russian military long range bomber aircraft photographed by an intercepting RAF quick reaction Typhoon (QRA) as it flies in international airspace. (Royal AIr Force/AP)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden and Denmark protest to Russia

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 15, 2014 at 18:19 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 18:57
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The foreign ministers of Sweden and Denmark are calling in the Russian ambassadors to Stockholm and Copenhagen, over a reported

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The Swedish corvette HMS Visby under way on the Mysingen Bay on October 21, 2014 on their fifth day of searching for a suspected foreign vessel in the Stockholm archipelago. (Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s opposition Liberal Party calls for new Defence Committee discussions

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 19:14 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 21:29
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Sweden’s opposition Liberal Party has called on the government to call in a new session of the Defence Committee, a

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A Swedish Navy fast-attack craft patrols in the the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, on October 18 2014. (Pontus Lundahl/AFP/Getty Images)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Russia playing “psychological warfare” with Sweden says researcher

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 19:04 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 21:29
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Submarines in the archipelago, fighter jets infringing Swedish airspace – it could all be part of a Russian strategy designed

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Göranson shows an image of what he says are tracks of the submarine on the sea floor. (Frank Radosevich / Radio Sweden)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Special Features Sweden 

Military confirms foreign sub violated Swedish waters

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Monday, November 17, 2014 at 21:35
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The Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Sverker Göranson, confirmed today that it was indeed a foreign mini-submarine that

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Retired admiral Nils-Ove Jansson has just released a new book all about the submarine hunts during the Cold War. (Kris Boswell/Radio Sweden)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

New book reveals Soviet nuclear threat against Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 18:27 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 21:36
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Could Sweden have been the target of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union during the cold war? One of

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The NATO/OTAN logo in Norfolk, Virginia in 2012. (Paul J. Richards / AFP)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Report calls for a study on Sweden joining NATO

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 15:45 — Last Updated: Friday, October 31, 2014 at 20:22
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A new study into Sweden’s international security cooperation recommends that there ought to be another study into whether Sweden should

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Two Swedish Jan-39 Gripen jet fighters in 2005. (Michal Cizek/AFP)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s government pledges more money for defense

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 17:25 — Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2014 at 21:27
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In the wake of a naval hunt for a suspected foreign vessel in Swedish waters, the government’s proposed budget called

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The Swedish corvette HMS Visby under way on the Mysingen Bay on October 21, 2014 on their fifth day of searching for a suspected foreign vessel in the Stockholm archipelago. (Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Image)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s military is in touch with “something” in sub hunt: reports

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 15:24 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 19:26
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Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Sverker Göransson, confirmed Tuesday that the military’s underwater search in the Stockholm archipelago

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Day four in the hunt for the suspected foriegn sub. Here at Ornö. (Lotta Myhrén/Sveriges Radio)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Special Features Sweden 

Sweden continues search for suspected foreign submarine

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 at 13:01 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 21:06
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The on-going hunt for a suspected foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago has evoked memories of the Cold War when

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