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Behind every Russian oligarch, as well as every corrupt Middle Eastern or African oligarch, stands an entire army of Western financial, legal, and PR service providers who are more than willing to accept money to clean up their reputations and portray them as normal. "An entire army of Western financial, legal, and PR service providers stands behind every Russian oligarch, as well as every corrupt Middle Eastern or African oligarch, who are happy to accept money to clean up their reputations and make them appear normal," commented the case by Vladimir Milov, former deputy minister of energy and a vocal critic of the Russian government. #RomanAbramovics #Deloitte #adócsalás (translated)

Jiri Keronen claimed that humanity would be destroyed due to cuts in development aid and stated that the claim was based on researched knowledge. He urged acceptance without complaint that the state would take money from people by threatening with weapons and send it to the states he described as corrupt in Africa. Keronen emphasized that these were high stakes. #kehitysapu #ihmisoikeudet #korruptio (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

The African billionaire Aliko Dangote's oil refinery mega project in Kenya, which threatens the UNESCO-protected Lamu Island and its unique ecosystem, raises serious concerns about the impact on the local environment and the lives of the residents. #Lamu #vide #UNESCO (translated)

Lars Boje Mathiesen wrote that the Citizens' Party had proposed to revoke the citizenship of a person of African descent, whom he described as a serial criminal. He believed the proposal was relevant because Mette Frederiksen was soon to speak with the person's father. Mathiesen asked whether the media had covered the proposal or asked the other parties whether they would support it, and what the Prime Minister thought. He also wrote that a proposal from another party, in his estimation, would have received more media coverage, and questioned whether the media were neutral. #dkpol #dkmedier #dkpol #dækning #statsborgerskab (translated)

Lars Boje Mathiesen asked whether the media had asked Mette Frederiksen if she felt a personal responsibility for the death of a Swedish man because she had granted citizenship to a man of African descent. He wrote that if TV 2 and DR were deliberately silent about the matter, it showed, in his opinion, that the press was in the pocket of the political power holders. #dkpol #dkmedier #dkpol #dkmedier #politik (translated)

Maarten van den Berg wrote that the economic position of the EU would change significantly in the near future. According to him, Germany, France, and Italy accounted for 13.8% of the world economy based on purchasing power parity in 1992, compared to 6.9% now. He stated that the share of the G7 would decrease from 47% to 26% by 2031 according to the IMF, and that the BRICS countries had already surpassed the G7 around 2020. Van den Berg wrote that the growth of the BRICS countries mainly came from India. He noted that China remained around 20%, with Russia, Brazil, and South Africa not far behind; he pointed out that these countries did not participate in Paris2030 and the Green Deal. He argued that economic weight was not automatic and had to be earned through growth. #Economie #EU #WereldwijdeGroei (translated)

Fredric Morenius wrote that the Sweden Democrats seriously believed that the Swedish nation could survive if 10 million Africans came to Sweden and read an SFI brochure about Swedish culture. He compared this to Reinfeldt's level and described the reasoning as extremely stupid. #Sverige #politics #mångfald (translated)

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to South African judge Navi Pillay is a powerful signal from the Nobel Committee in support of the International Criminal Court, especially now that the Trump administration is intensifying its attacks on the international legal order. #NaviPillay #InternationaalRecht #Vredeprijs (translated)

The choice of Pillay as a Nobel Prize winner is a 'tribute to courage, integrity, and lifelong commitment to justice,' said Cyril Ramaphosa, president of the country where Pillay grew up and took her first steps on the path of law, South Africa. #NaviPillay #Mensenrechten #Apartheid (translated)

Navi Pillay, the South African lawyer and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting international law and for holding perpetrators of war crimes accountable. #NaviPillay #NobelBékedíj #NemzetköziJog (translated)

Navi Pillay, the South African lawyer, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, will receive the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, which was announced on Friday in Oslo. #NobelBékeDíj #NaviPillay #EmberiJogok (translated)