The president said Ukraine is moving towards "an important agreement with the U.S.," adding that the agreement could happen after Congress approves the $61 aid bill for Ukraine that awaits an upcoming vote on April 20.
The Nordic and Baltic countries support an increased role for NATO in aiding Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as well as Kyiv’s bid to join the European Union, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told reporters on April 10, according to Reuters.
Massive Nordic Bronze Age monument discovered In Germany may be legendary King Hinz meeting hall
Archaeologists have unearthed a colossal Bronze Age building, near the royal grave at Seddin in Brandenburg, Germany. The structure is believed to be the legendary meeting hall of King Hinz, a ruler associated with local folklore and purportedly buried in a golden coffin...
#HELSINKI (AP) — NATO kicked off an exercise on Monday to defend its newly expanded #Nordic#territory when >20k soldiers from 13 nations take part in drills lasting nearly 2 wks in the northern regions of Finland, Norway & Sweden.
#Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for #Ukraine
#Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.
"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from #China stopped as if by chance a few months ago"
#Nordic countries have found a substitute for the #Chinese cotton... innovation is at work, precisely to meet the need for powder, because... we have problems today with powder capacity".
Just got notice that my project proposal for the Informatics Project II at #NTNU has been accepted. Soon seven students will be working with #Nordic hardware to build a personal habit tracker. I'll keep posting updates with the hashtag #IT2901Nordic2024.
🇮🇹 Heilung, una band di musica folk sperimentale composta da membri provenienti da Danimarca, Norvegia e Germania. La loro musica si basa testi di iscrizioni runiche di popoli germanici dell'età del ferro e dell'età vichinga. La loro musica parla di divinità germaniche, di Jǫtnar e di valchirie.
🇬🇧 Heilung, an experimental folk music band made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron Age, and Viking Age. Their music is usually about Germanic deities, The Jǫtnar, and valkyries.
GRANITE NOIR 2024
Aberdeen’s #CrimeFiction Festival
20–25 February
Granite Noir is inspired by crime fiction in all its forms, by the fantastic contribution that #Scottish writers make, by our love affair with #Nordic Noir, & most of all inspired by Aberdeen – steeped in history, atmospheric, quirky & with a strong sense of place
The dynamics of support to Ukraine have slowed. Newly committed aid has reached a new low between August to October 2023—an almost 90 percent drop compared to the same period in 2022. Ukraine now increasingly relies on a core group of donors such as the US, #Germany, and the #Nordic and Eastern European countries that continue to pledge and deliver both financial aid and important weaponry, such as F-16 fighter jets.
It’s 1 key event to the success of the nordic economies, and it unlocked the looming threat of bolshevik revolutions. Since the fall of the USSR the right wing has made strides in dissolving the model to return to an unbalanced conflict oriented one.
"Nearly every party and politician across the Nordic-Baltic region now agrees on standing tough against Russia. That has pushed electoral contests onto other terrain. All this has made the two regions more equal: the Baltics are no longer such junior partners. "
“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says #police officer Michael Hansen.
Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of #people outside of the #nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a #danish police officer discussing a new danish #law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of #refugees to #finance the integration.
Zelensky: Ukraine could sign bilateral security agreements with US, Nordic, Baltic states in near future (kyivindependent.com)
The president said Ukraine is moving towards "an important agreement with the U.S.," adding that the agreement could happen after Congress approves the $61 aid bill for Ukraine that awaits an upcoming vote on April 20.
Minister: Nordic, Baltic nations call on NATO to increase support for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The Nordic and Baltic countries support an increased role for NATO in aiding Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as well as Kyiv’s bid to join the European Union, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told reporters on April 10, according to Reuters.