Hundreds of residents on the Swedish island of Gotland took part in a civilian evacuation exercise in the event of war. It is the first drill of this scale in many decades. According to the Gotland regional administration, an evacuation of this size was last practiced on the island in...
Swedish churches cut ties with Russian Orthodox parish over security fears
Sweden’s Christian Council has frozen the Swedish branch of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate out of its membership. The board approved the step on 17 September and published it on 1 October. In effect, the council is only putting on record a break that has already held...
Sweden records record number of challenges to parliamentary election results
Sweden has registered a record number of challenges to the results of the parliamentary elections held on 13 September 2026. More than 800 appeals have already been registered with the parliamentary Election Review Board (Valprövningsnämnden). About 9,000 more submissions are still being processed. The previous record was set after the...
Thousands of fake X accounts uncovered ahead of Sweden’s elections
Ahead of Sweden’s parliamentary and local elections, which took place on 13 September 2026, researchers identified a large network of inauthentic accounts on the social network X. The finding was reported by the analytics firm Trollrensics and the organization Alliance4Europe in a joint investigation with Swedish public broadcaster SVT. According...