BILLION PLAN: Jens Stoltenberg, on his way to meet the press at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday morning. Photo: OLIVIER HOSLET / EPA / NTB NATO wants to ensure that Ukraine receives financial support over several years. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced this at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. reporting from Brussels on … Read more
Gol secondary school is located in Ål’s neighboring municipality Gol – a little further east in Hallingdal than Signe Slaatten’s home municipality. Photo: Endre Ulsaker / Gol secondary school Signe Slaatten (18) should have been there. Instead, her fellow students mourned her loss. Tuesday 2 April at 22:54 It was a sad day at Gol … Read more
In February, Maksim Kuzminov was found murdered in a parking garage. Photo: Rafa Arjones/Informacion.es / Reuters / NTB Spain believes that Russia has upgraded its intelligence after the murder of the Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov. Monday 1 April at 01:51 The short version Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov was killed in Spain in February. In 2023, … Read more
THE SCENE: Sander Slaatten is said to have been playing games until around midnight on the night he, his sister and mother were killed. Photo: Helge Mikalsen / VG Before Sander Slaatten (22) went to sleep, he is said to have been in contact with a friend via a game on the internet. Reporting from … Read more
Poland sent up planes in connection with the Russian attacks. Friday 29 March at 09:13 Ukrainian energy facilities were attacked with Russian rockets and drones on the night of Good Friday, according to authorities in the country. In connection with the attacks, the Polish army wrote the following at 03.39: – Polish and allied aircraft … Read more
– Damn guys, says a female voice in Italian over a connection at a platform set up at Badderen along the Badderfjord in Kvænangen, north of Troms. In the sea beyond, an Italian-led group of nine countries – among them Sweden – is preparing to move closer. They practice what can be called a “d-day” … Read more
Photo: Ingrid Aas / VG Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol’s controversial master’s thesis at Nord University is now being sent to the university’s committee for student affairs. Friday 8 March at 14:52 Kjerkol himself states this in a further statement The daily newspaper. The tribunal will assess whether the thesis, which Kjerkol wrote together with a … Read more
Yulia Navalnaya, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Olena Zelenska. Three women, three big movements. They stand up for freedom. The women’s struggle gives Vladimir Putin nightmares. Per Olav ØdegårdCommentator Info Commentator in VG. Former foreign journalist and correspondent for VG in the USA. Writes mostly about international affairs. Drawing: Roar Hagen Friday 8 March at 13:55 The … Read more
Hardly anyone believes that Viktor Orbán in Budapest or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara will give up another slip to push forward negotiations on completely different things. Such is the essence of bazaar politics. On Tuesday, the Hungarian foreign minister said their support for Mark Rutte would be “bizarre”. In 2021, the then Prime Minister … Read more
Vladimir Putin photographed when he delivered his speech on “the state of the kingdom” last week. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP / NTB More and more Russians want an end to the war – but the Kremlin still has support to continue, says an expert to VG. Sunday 3 March at 20:26 The short version … Read more