https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedish personal data and ID documents are being sold and rented out online via Russian-language forums in Sweden, according to a report by Sveriges Radio's Ekot show. https://www.thelocal.se/20170421/swedish-personal-data-and-id-documents-being-sold-online-report Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:36:01 +0200 swedish-personal-data-and-id-documents-being-sold-online-report You’ve got 100,000 Swedish kronor to blow on something extravagant. Do you buy a low-end sports car? Not if you live in southern Norrland you don’t. You buy a tank. https://www.thelocal.se/20150201/swede-buys-soviet-tank-for-winter-fun Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:54:00 +0100 swede-buys-soviet-tank-for-winter-fun Despite Sweden's pyjama-party heyday and an MI6 lure called "Ann" with a fail-free seduction record, the Swedish security service Säpo failed to honeytrap Leonid Brezhnev's son during the Cold War thanks to a tattle-tale defector. https://www.thelocal.se/20140506/spo-tried-honeytrap-on-brezhnevs-son Tue, 06 May 2014 16:49:00 +0200 spo-tried-honeytrap-on-brezhnevs-son The Swedish military announced on Monday it had discovered the remains of a Russian submarine on the Baltic Sea bed near the island of Öland. https://www.thelocal.se/20121217/45114 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:55:00 +0100 45114 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg had at least 15 kilogrammes of gold and jewellery in his car when the Red Army arrested him in 1945, according to a new book by Swedish author Bengt Jangfeldt. https://www.thelocal.se/20120518/40900 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:13:00 +0200 40900 A dispute has broken out over whether or not the wreck of a suspected Soviet-era submarine found near the Baltic island of Gotland deserves further investigation. https://www.thelocal.se/20110303/32386 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:12:00 +0100 32386 Two researchers have said there is strong evidence to suggest that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was still alive after the date on which the Soviet Union claimed he had died of a heart attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20100403/25890 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:39:00 +0200 25890 New research has shown that Sweden's relations with the United States ran more deeply during the Cold War than was previously known and the countries enjoyed a close military cooperation. https://www.thelocal.se/20090317/18262 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:47:00 +0100 18262 Sweden’s National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt – FRA) prevented a political murder and revealed that Soviet mock attacks were in fact “prank flights”, reports the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper. https://www.thelocal.se/20080723/13210 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:55:00 +0200 13210 Foreign minister Carl Bildt remains convinced that Soviet submarines entered Swedish waters in 1982 despite Monday's revelations that sounds recorded in the Stockholm archipelago may actually have emanated from a Swedish charter boat. https://www.thelocal.se/20080520/11888 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:17:00 +0200 11888 The sound recorded in 1982 in the waters of Hårsfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago has turned out not to be from a threatening Soviet submarine but rather from Amalia, a charter boat which happened to be nearby at the time of the operation. https://www.thelocal.se/20080519/11872 Mon, 19 May 2008 18:14:00 +0200 11872 Sweden's Living History Forum on Monday launched a new project designed to highlight crimes against humanity committed by communist regimes around the world. https://www.thelocal.se/20080310/10388 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:00 +0100 10388