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On the front page of the press, the agreement finally given yesterday by Hungary, the last country to block Sweden's accession to NATO, of which the Scandinavian country will become the 32nd member.
“A historic yes”, headlines
Dagens Nyheter
this morning , which shows Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaking yesterday in the Hungarian Parliament.
The Swedish daily, pleased to see Sweden "take a giant step towards NATO membership, after 21 months of drama", since the country decided to join the Alliance after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Svenska Dagbladet
cites the statement yesterday by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who spoke of yesterday as "a historic day".
The Swedish Prime Minister, alongside Viktor Orban and the star of NATO, on the front page of
Göteborgs Posten
, which sees "the road opening, after Hungary's vote".
Svenska Dagbladet promises that Sweden "will strive to become first in class, when its flag is raised in a few days at NATO headquarters in Brussels", and that the Swedes "will sit in the front row, raise the hand and will try to do everything correctly - in a rather noisy class.
This membership is also welcomed by
The Wall Street Journal
.
The American daily explains that Sweden's upcoming entry into NATO will allow the Alliance to "gain a resolutely anti-Russian member with a robust army, which provides essential defense of the northern flank of Europe ", and that this membership will also bring within the Organization "a country whose approach to national security, by involving adolescents, retirees, teachers and police officers in the defense of the country, offers a model for other European countries fearing Russian aggression.
In Russia, the circumstances of the death of opponent Alexeï Navalny on February 16 remain unclear.
Le Monde
relays testimonies from detainees collected by the independent Russian press on violence and mistreatment in the Arctic penal colony, nicknamed “Polar Wolf”, where Alexeï Navalny died.
The newspaper cites in particular testimonies published by the exile media
Holod
, revealing in particular the existence of a technique consisting of "beating the detainee before wrapping him in blankets and mattresses compressed with tape, from which no protruding "only the head - a position in which the prisoner is fed from a funnel and forced to relieve himself on himself" - abuse inflicted not by fellow prisoners, as is often the case in other Russian prisons, but by the guards themselves.
If Alexeï Navalny was able to be protected from these direct physical attacks, he and his entourage had warned of the psychological pressure and mistreatment to which he was subject.
The entourage of Alexeï Navalny, who now maintains that he should have been included in a prisoner exchange, just before his death.
According to the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, this exchange would have concerned an FSB hitman, Vadim Krassikov, sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany, for the assassination, in 2019, in the heart of Berlin, of a former Chechen separatist.
An individual whose patriotism Vladimir Putin recently praised and who could have been exchanged for Alexei Navalny, as well as two "American citizens imprisoned in Russia", perhaps Wall Street Journal correspondent
Evan
Gershkovich arrested last spring in Russia for "spying".
The Russian president would therefore have finally derailed a project deemed "dangerous" by the newspaper, to the extent that this exchange would have proven to Vladimir Putin that the West "is ready to release the murderers acting on behalf of the Russian state" , thus encouraging the Kremlin to take even more hostages, thus placing the West in the face of “terrible dilemmas”.
The Kremlin, which would be ready to spend lavishly, or almost, to secure "elections" won in advance - this is what the
Kremlin Leaks
reveal .
Internal documents, obtained by the Estonian news site
Delfi
, which collaborated with an international consortium of media, reveal the extent of the propaganda machine put in place to prepare for the March 17 presidential election.
They detail in particular the essential place given to cinema, series and TV shows.
An “informational war” with a colossal budget of more than a billion euros, to produce content “exalting in particular the traditional virtues of Russia”, according to
the France 24 site
, to which researcher Jeff Hawn explained that the aim of this massive investment "is not to make Vladimir Putin win, but to reduce the need to have to manipulate results", the start of the war in Ukraine and especially the aborted "rebellion" of the late boss of the group paramilitary Wagner, Evgeni Prigojine, having nourished, according to him, a certain “insecurity at the top of the State regarding the sustainability of the system”.
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We won't leave each other on this.
If this cheerful news makes you want to go far, far away, I recommend that you glance at the
Guardian
, which reports a job offer in Antarctica.
A British NGO is seeking candidates for a five-month mission in a scientific research base.
The job has quite a few advantages, breathtaking landscapes, whales and penguins, you name it, but also some disadvantages, such as the absence of toilets and running water or the fact of having to sleep in small shared room with bunk beds.
Required profile: be “resilient, in good physical shape, and concerned about the environment”.
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