Sveriges Television AB, meaning Sweden's Television Stock Company, is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag. Prior to 2019, SVT was funded by a television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets. The Swedish public broadcasting system is largely modelled after the system used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the BBC.
The mass media in Sweden has a long tradition going back to the 1766 law enacting freedom of the press.
Mona Ingeborg Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011.
Gothenburg Municipality is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg.
TietoEVRY Oyj is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services, with approximately 24,000 employees, active in around 20 countries. TietoEVRY is domiciled in Espoo, Finland, and the company's shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki and Stockholm.
Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone.
Eniro.se is a local Swedish search portal offering telephone directory, websearch and maps for Sweden. In addition to this Eniro offers a news aggregator, shopping services, video search, image search and job search. Its biggest competitor is Hitta.se who offer similar services.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish writer.
Blossom Alexandra Liliana Tainton-Lindquist is a Swedish singer, dancer, publisher, fitness coach and personal trainer.
Mona Walter is a Swedish activist and social commentator. She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia and moved to Sweden as a refugee in 1994. Raised Muslim, she converted to Christianity and publishes writings critical of Islam via her social media accounts and in press articles. Her opinions on the threat she believes Islam poses to the Western world have caused controversy. Her analyses of Islam have been considered "anti-Muslim, Islamophobic, or racist in nature" by both Muslims and non-Muslims. In August 2015, Walter and a camera team from SVT news programme Aktuellt were attacked when they walked through the Stockholm district of Rinkeby. Eggs were thrown at the broadcaster's car.
Leif Albert Östling is a Swedish chief executive officer and former head of the Scania AB truck company, owned by the German Volkswagen Group. In spring 2016, he was appointed Chairman of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, a post he left in advance in November 2017.
Laurent Leksell is a Swedish PhD Economics, international business leader and entrepreneur.
In the run up for the 2022 Swedish general election to the Riksdag, various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Sweden. Results of such polls are displayed in this article.
The second cabinet of Stefan Löfven is the present Government of Sweden. It is a coalition, consisting of two parties: the Social Democrats and the Green Party. The cabinet was installed on 21 January 2019, following the 2018 general election.
Gunnar Sandelin is a Swedish social worker, author, lecturer, and journalist. He has worked for Sveriges Television and been the press manager at Barnens rätt i samhället. Sandelin has stated that mainstream media reporters avoid writing the truth about the consequences of Sweden's migration policy due to fear of reprisals. Together with Karl-Olov Arnstberg, he has written the book Invandring och mörkläggning and a sequel. Sandelin has been a debater at Nya Tider.
Malcom Kyeyune is a Swedish writer and blogger. He writes for publications such as Aftonbladet, Fokus, Göteborgs-posten, Dagens Samhälle and Kvartal. He has a podcast together with Markus Allard (sv) of the municipal Örebro party, and frequently guests the podcast What's Left alongside Angela Nagle. He is part of the steering council for the conservative think tank Oikos (sv) headed by the politician Mattias Karlsson. Kyeyune was a member of the Swedish Young Left and chairman of its Uppsala district until 2014, at which point he was suspended as a result of conflicts within the Left party.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Sweden on 31 January 2020, when a woman returning from Wuhan tested positive. On 26 February, following outbreaks in Italy and in Iran, multiple travel-related clusters appeared in Sweden. Community transmission was confirmed on 9 March in the Stockholm Metropolitan Area. Since then, individuals in every län (county) have tested positive for COVID-19. The first death was reported on 11 March in Stockholm, a case of community transmission. However, it is believed that the virus could have reached Sweden as early as December 2019, when several individuals sought care for respiratory illness in Falun after contact with an individual with recent travel history to Wuhan.
Events in the year 2021 in Sweden.
Pavel Gamov is a Russian-born former Swedish politician who was a member of the Riksdag, first as a member of the Sweden Democrats and then as an independent.
Ingela Lind was a Swedish journalist, art critic and non-fiction writer.
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