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Foreign Policy For Profit
Last week, the Russian government announced they would respond to Western sanctions over the situation in the Ukraine with some economic sanctions of their own—a full embargo on food imports from the EU, the US and several other Western countries. Norway, which…
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Where’s Robert Barber?
I recently attended the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavík’s annual American Independence Day celebration, a lively event with great music, a delicious American-style buffet, a host of accomplished people and an abundance of patriotic spirit. As I scanned the mingling crowd, I recognised…
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President And Iceland’s Government Differ On Russia And Ukraine Conflict
Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has found himself having to defend recent remarks made by Icelandic president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson on the subject of Russia and the Ukraine, which seem to contradict Iceland’s actual position on the conflict. Norwegian news service Nordlys,…