When you think of a date in Sweden, you probably picture a candlelit dinner in a Scandinavian-style apartment or a ski trip with an athletic nature lover. However, those who have come here to work…
What people don't eat in different countries: insects, offal, rotten meat. In Sweden, such delicacies include the well-known pickled herring (surströmming). Not everyone eats it, but it is becoming…
On the importance of advance planning, on the craving for sweets on Saturdays, on the inevitability of watching Disney cartoons at Christmas, and on other amazing features of the Swedish way of life…
Swedes uncompromisingly care about the environment and fear viruses, get up early and go to bed early, try to avoid conflicts and observe political correctness. And they have surpassed everyone in…
In the eyes of most Europeans, Sweden is almost the only EU country that always welcomes migrants and refugees. As 'Russkaya Germaniya' notes, some parties and politicians express a different…
"Swedish socialism" is a term that has become a byword. Indeed, the social system of this northern country is structured in such a way as to make the lives of its citizens as comfortable as possible…
Snow-covered streets of the Old Town, where medieval Scandinavian architecture houses coexist with typically German ones, the businesslike concentration of central streets turning into the main…
Swedes are a stubborn people. If they have prepared for a summer holiday, they will spend it as summer. Therefore, on the streets of Visby, a medieval Hanseatic city, the capital of the island of…
At least 500 foreign nationals who applied for asylum or residence permits in Sweden in 2003 mutilated their fingers to make fingerprinting more difficult. This is reported by Swedish Radio.
Christmas trade in Sweden broke all previous records. This is evidenced by statistical data from the Swedish news agency TT.
The forced expulsion of foreign citizens who have no grounds for obtaining asylum in the country is costly for the Swedish state, reported the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, citing data from the…
Figures from the Swedish Migration Agency have been published, showing that among asylum seekers from the former Soviet Union, more than a third are criminals.