Tag: Jonsson

  • Russia has been Sweden’s eternal enemy

    Russia has been Sweden’s eternal enemy

    It started with the battles over Finland and the Baltics in the 13th century and totally degenerated with Johan III’s “scolding letter” to Ivan the Terrible. The 18th century’s violent Russian influence campaigns against Sweden and the Swedish Russophobia in the 19th century cemented the discord. Sweden’s relationship with Russia has been marked by enmity…

  • Parisa Liljestrand (M): I am uncompromising about “arm’s length distance”

    Parisa Liljestrand (M): I am uncompromising about “arm’s length distance”

    One of the things that the Government has highlighted as particularly important in cultural policy is the principle of an arm’s length distance between politics and the content of culture. A general definition of arm’s length is that politics sets the framework with money and organization, but does not interfere with the content and artistic…

  • This is how Anonymous Sudan and Russian hackers attack Sweden

    This is how Anonymous Sudan and Russian hackers attack Sweden

    In February 2023, websites belonging to large Swedish companies, authorities and institutions will be shut down. Among other things, SAS, SVT, several universities and hospitals are affected. It soon becomes clear that the hacker group Anonymous Sudan is behind the overload attacks. – My first reaction was “yeah, right”, and quite a lot of skepticism…

  • Smuggling Sweden – Operation Skorpionen |  part 6/6

    Smuggling Sweden – Operation Skorpionen | part 6/6

    In 2015, Slovakia changed its legislation on the sale of deactivated weapons after it emerged that they were used in terrorist acts. By then, tens of thousands of Kalashnikovs, pistols and Scorpions have already been sold and are in operation in Europe. The networks sell weapons to both sides in the conflict With Operation Skorpion,…

  • Smuggelsverige – The police murder in Biskopsgården |  part 5/6

    Smuggelsverige – The police murder in Biskopsgården | part 5/6

    June 30, 2021. 112 receives several alarm calls about a shooting in Biskopsgården in Gothenburg. Two police officers are in the area and drive towards Vårväderstorget on a moped. One of them is Andreas Danman. Arriving at the scene, he is shot to death. Witnesses describe the perpetrator as young, wearing a black hoodie and…

  • Smuggling Sweden – Marble slabs from Morocco |  part 4/6

    Smuggling Sweden – Marble slabs from Morocco | part 4/6

    In November 2020, customs in the Port of Gothenburg will receive an inspection mission. They are to investigate a shipment from Casablanca. Three containers of marble slabs are passed through and finally the customs find vacuum-packed hash in what looks like marble slabs. In total, it is 1.2 tonnes and it will be the largest…

  • 461: This is how the war shaped Swedish politics

    461: This is how the war shaped Swedish politics

    On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Like the rest of the Western world, Sweden was quick to condemn the attack and declared solidarity with the people of Ukraine. At the same time, the war meant a rapid shift in Swedish politics in central areas, perhaps the most revolutionary we have…

  • Smuggelsverige – Drug wholesaler in Marbella |  part 3/6

    Smuggelsverige – Drug wholesaler in Marbella | part 3/6

    From Marbella in Spain, Gothenburg citizen Micke runs a drug network. Tons of drugs arrive in Spain via freighters from South America and in fast speedboats from Morocco. With the help of a truck driver who has an animal transport company, the drugs are taken to Sweden. Customs believe that upwards of 150 tons of…

  • Smuggling Sweden – Arms smuggler from the Balkans |  part 2/6

    Smuggling Sweden – Arms smuggler from the Balkans | part 2/6

    After the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 90s, no authority has a handle on how many weapons were distributed to the population, and instead of being handed in, they are smuggled to countries like Sweden. Marko has been convicted of several crimes but never for all the weapons he smuggled to Sweden from the…

  • Smuggling Sweden – The weapon that killed our son |  part 1/6

    Smuggling Sweden – The weapon that killed our son | part 1/6

    For a year, we have followed the weapons and narcotics routes into Sweden, to understand how serious international crime leads to shootings and murders on Swedish streets. In this series you meet those who rarely speak but who have supplied the gangs with drugs and weapons – the smugglers. The gang war in Biskopsgården In…

  • We know that about the ex-servicemen arrested by Säpo

    We know that about the ex-servicemen arrested by Säpo

    On a Monday in February, an attack is made in a villa idyll. Personnel from Säpo and Must have collaborated in an investigation into an odd crime. – There were efforts that were carried out in the Stockholm area, where two people were picked up for questioning and a number of house searches were carried…

  • Mortgage rates continue to rise – “ask for a discount or change banks”

    Mortgage rates continue to rise – “ask for a discount or change banks”

    Host:Caroline Salzinger Voices and participation in the programHenrik Braconier, Chief Economist, Financial Supervisory AuthorityChristina Sahlberg, savings economist, Compricer Claes Bäckman, researcher in National Economics, Aarhus University. Erik Thedéen, Governor of the Riksbank Carina Åkerström, CEO, HandelsbankenJens Henriksson, CEO, Swedbank Lotta Silver, Elisabeth Nordström and Annika Eriksson, mortgage customers Producer:Olof Wijnbladh Technician:Joar Jonsson [email protected]

  • The strategic game behind Turkey’s NATO no

    The strategic game behind Turkey’s NATO no

    Turkish President Erdogan rejects Sweden time and time again, and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) calls for national calm so as not to stir up the mood. What looked like a reasonably quick journey into NATO has become a long bench of foreign policy suffering. Rasmus Paludan’s Koran burning and the hanging Erdogan doll in…

  • The extremists who want to overthrow the state

    The extremists who want to overthrow the state

    In Iceland, a trial begins in January against two men who are suspected of terrorist plots. The men deny it, but according to the police have extreme right-wing views, and are said to have planned an armed attack against, among other things, the Alltinget, the Icelandic parliament. The threat from within has also been seen…

  • The weaknesses of Putin’s occupation plan

    The weaknesses of Putin’s occupation plan

    Recently, what Russia called “referendums” were held in four regions of Ukraine, but these votes were described by independent observers as faked sham votes. Soldiers with guns have been walking around forcing people to vote. But despite the polls being completely illegitimate, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the results to claim that the people…

  • The panic in Russia after Putin’s mobilization

    The panic in Russia after Putin’s mobilization

    After Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that hundreds of thousands of men will be mobilized to fight in Ukraine, there have been strong protests in several places in Russia. Although there was first talk of 300,000 men and a so-called partial mobilization, it seems that not all of them are…

  • The game behind the nuclear weapons plan over Sweden

    The game behind the nuclear weapons plan over Sweden

    On September 2, huge fighter jets thunder in over central Stockholm. Everyone’s eyes are directed towards the roar from above. Three Swedish JAS Gripens look small next to the large American bombers flying low over the hulls. The display is part of an exercise aimed at scaring Russia, just enough. The strategy is called deterrence,…

  • Report criticizes government after “Party gate”

    Report criticizes government after “Party gate”

    The British government is criticized in an interim report for lack of leadership linked to the “party gate”. Reports criticize several high-ranking leaders in Boris Jonsson’s government for having created a culture that has led to illegal parties being held. Listen to Ekot’s London correspondent Stephanie Zakrisson in Ekot’s live broadcast.

  • This is how NATO changes security for Sweden

    This is how NATO changes security for Sweden

    Finland and Sweden are doing something together and want to become members of NATO. The news comes after Russia began its offensive war against Ukraine, and demanded a security zone around the country. This historic change of course for Swedish security policy makes the Baltic Sea a NATO inland sea – and may also put…

  • Right now: The security policy analysis is presented

    Right now: The security policy analysis is presented

    On March 16, the government initiated discussions with all parliamentary parties to discuss the security policy situation after Russia attacked Ukraine. The conclusions will form the basis for the decision on whether Sweden will join NATO. The press conference will be attended by Foreign Minister Ann Linde (S), Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist (S), Kenneth…

  • VMA in Uppsala municipality •

    VMA in Uppsala municipality •

    United States before and after Roe V. Wade In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutionally protected right to abortion. The political debate was rather cool – but soon this would change radically. What just happened? Jill Biden traveled to Ukraine US President Jill Biden surprised the media with a visit to…

  • Mad cow disease

    Mad cow disease

    More than 200 people die of mad cow disease and 4 million cows are killed. The cause of the spread of infection turns out to be meat meal mixed into the cows’ feed. Hear the story of one of the 90’s most terrifying diseases and one of Europe’s biggest and most costly crises. Warning: the…

  • Expulsion of spies can wake up sleeping agents

    Expulsion of spies can wake up sleeping agents

    The great Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is now redrawing the spy map in Europe. We are entering a more uncertain time where the need for intelligence has increased both in the east and the west. With a decision on NATO at the door, the military warns of sabotage against mapped targets and there…

  • The Madeleine McCann mystery – that’s the police’s theory

    The Madeleine McCann mystery – that’s the police’s theory

    On the evening of May 3, 2007, British doctor Kate McCann leaves the table at a tapas restaurant on the Algarve coast in Portugal. She has to look after her three children who sleep in the family’s hotel room – but there she makes a horrible discovery. The eldest daughter, the soon-to-be four-year-old Madeleine, is…

  • 403: Sweden, NATO and Trump’s return

    403: Sweden, NATO and Trump’s return

    This is how Sweden will be affected if Trump returns Much (if not all) right now points to Sweden joining NATO in the near future. At the same time, the Republicans are gathering strength to regain power in the United States and probably with Donald Trump at the helm. As president, Donald Trump was deeply…

  • 402: Everything speaks against a referendum on NATO

    402: Everything speaks against a referendum on NATO

    The Left Party wants a referendum on NATO Nooshi Dadgostar thinks that voters are left out of the decision on NATO and therefore demands a referendum. Is it practically or politically possible? We sift and track. Ebba Busch’s statement raises debate The Christian Democrats’ party leader in the hot air or controversial statement in Ekot’s…

  • To risk dying for his country

    To risk dying for his country

    Cast: Douglas Wiseintelligence officer and instructor, Taras Borovokcomposer Ukrainian Army, Yurii Sheliazhenko, Ukrainian pacifist, Daniel Jonsson, research leader at the Swedish Defense Research Agency, Henrik Landerholm, Director-General of the Agency for Psychological Defense, Thomas Persson, Home Guard soldier. Host: Robin [email protected] Reporters: Simon Moser, Maria Persson LöfgrenTechnician: Karl Björnsson, Tim Kellerman Producer: David [email protected]

  • Russia’s revenge against the Swedish researchers

    Russia’s revenge against the Swedish researchers

    The poisoning of the well-known opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the autumn of 2020 has similarities to what is happening today in Ukraine. It seems to be about revenge. Perhaps this story can also teach us something about what the Russian response to EU sanctions will look like in the future. Participants: Åsa Scotthead of…

  • When the State Distributed Drugs – Part 2 The Deaths

    When the State Distributed Drugs – Part 2 The Deaths

    In the mid-1960s, a couple of doctors in Sweden received permission from the Medical Products Agency to prescribe drugs to drug addicts. The doctors thesis that a feeling of satiety will appear and that patients will voluntarily reduce their drug use if they have access to drugs. In Stockholm, a clinic is run by the…

  • This is how Putin was shaped by time as a spy

    This is how Putin was shaped by time as a spy

    Participants: Johanna Melén, our Russia correspondent, Carolina Vendil Pallin, Research leader FOI, Oscar Jonsson, researcher at the Swedish National Defense College. Host: Jesper Lindau [email protected] Producer: Irma Norrman [email protected]

  • The war in Ukraine has been going on for a month

    The war in Ukraine has been going on for a month

    Hear conversations with Roman Horbyk and Kateryna Martyniuk from Lviv in western Ukraine. Oscar Jonsson, researcher in military science at the Swedish National Defense College, summarizes the last month’s battles. The clip comes from P1-Morgon 24 March 2022.

  • Four scenarios: This is how the war can end – Oscar Jonsson

    Four scenarios: This is how the war can end – Oscar Jonsson

    Hosts: Linnea Wikblad and Kodjo Akolor

  • Extra broadcast: Ukraine War in its fourth week

    Extra broadcast: Ukraine War in its fourth week

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has now been going on for more than three weeks. Hear Ekot’s correspondent Richard Myrenberg, Ekot’s former Russia correspondent Sten Sjöström and also voices from within Ukraine. Is China starting to turn away from Russia? China expert Oscar Almén gives us a picture of the relationship between the great powers. Oscar…