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Katarina Tracz, Senior Fellow at Stockholm Free World Forum, was interviewed by The Cipher Brief about hybrid attacks in the Baltic Sea. The discussion focused on recent damage to undersea cables, as well as the underlying circumstances and consequences of ...

Stockholm Free World Forum Resident Senior Fellow Patrik Oksanen joins the Polish podcast Truth Talks, which focuses on European and international politics. The episode discusses hybrid warfare and information warfare in a Swedish context. Watch it here. ...

Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, writes in The Japan Times about Russia’s budget financing, bank lending to the defense industry, and inflation. He highlights the country’s growing economic challenges, such as rising inflation, shortages of ...

Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, shares his key takeaways from the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos in an interview. He notes that the discussions were primarily centered around Donald Trump and his policies, while ...

Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at Stockholm Free World Forum, is mentioned in Fortune regarding the impact of the war in Ukraine on the Russian economy. According to Åslund, the Russian economy is approaching a critical point, and he questions how ...

Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, writes in Project Syndicate about how the war in Ukraine is pushing Russia toward economic stagflation. The country is grappling with rising inflation, shortages of technology and labor, and rapidly ...

“Västerås has one of Sweden’s longest runways. The city is strategically located near key bridges over Lake Mälaren, and Stockholm is not far from the strategic harbor in Gävle. This area is also close to the Swedish Army Headquarters in ...

Sweden will send a mechanized battalion to Latvia as contribution to the Canadian led NATO EFP when Sweden formally join Nato. “We welcome this decision ...

Although US intelligence agencies are warning that Russia is mobilizing its ground forces for an attack on Ukraine, it is still tempting to think that Russian President Vladimir Putin would never actually follow through on such a risky move. Yet ...

In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been escalating his hybrid war against the Western world. However, his annual speech to Russian ambassadors on November 18 saw Putin at his most uninspired and defensive. Freeworld Forum’s Senior Fellow Anders Åslund ...