Uzbekistan
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TeliaSonera board member avoids taxes
Business & Money: 22 Apr 13
Spotify founder Martin Lorentzon, brought in to revitalize the profile of bribery-accused Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera, has avoided millions in taxes to Sweden through a shell company in Cyprus.
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TeliaSonera sales slump as market shifts to data
Business & Money: 19 Apr 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera on Friday reported a first quarter decline in sales and profit amid strong competition and a drop in revenue from texting and traditional voice traffic in relation to data services.
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TeliaSonera CEO widens misconduct probe
Business & Money: 4 Apr 13
TeliaSonera's new CEO Marie Ehrling has ordered a thorough review of the state-owned telecom firm's dealings in all markets abroad, as a new board was elected after a year under tough scrutiny over bribery allegations in Uzbekistan.
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TeliaSonera CEO quits amid bribery scandal
National: 1 Feb 13
TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg announced on Friday he was stepping down from the Nordic telecom firm, which remains under fire over allegations of bribery stemming from its business dealings in Uzbekistan.
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TeliaSonera probe finds 'no evidence' of bribery
Business & Money: 1 Feb 13
A law firm hired by TeliaSonera to investigate bribery allegations stemming from the Nordic telecom firm's business deals in Uzbekistan has found there is no evidence to support the claims.
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TeliaSonera cuts Sweden staff despite profits
Business & Money: 31 Jan 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera reported an 8 percent rise in 2012 net profits on Thursday, but still plans to reduce the size of its workforce in Sweden.
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New asset freeze in TeliaSonera bribe probe
National: 22 Jan 13
The Stockholm District Court on Tuesday ordered an unprecedented 1.8 billion kronor ($277 million) asset freeze for the Uzbekistan-based partner of Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera as part of an ongoing bribery investigation.
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TeliaSonera rebuffs minister's 'time-out' call
Business & Money: 9 Jan 13
TeliaSonera will not order senior managers accused of corruption stemming from the Nordic telecom giant's dealings in Uzbekistan to take time off, despite calls by a Swedish minister who called recent revelations "very serious".
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Activists urge H&M to quit Uzbek cotton
Business & Money: 16 Dec 12
British campaigners have launched a campaign to get Swedish retail giant H&M to stop using cotton harvested in Uzbekistan.
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Two TeliaSonera bosses suspected of bribery
Business & Money: 12 Dec 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera confirmed on Wednesday that two senior staff members are under criminal investigation for bribery following September’s revelations of the details surrounding its licensing deal in Uzbekistan.
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TeliaSonera hit with new Uzbek revelations
Politics: 5 Nov 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera has been hit with new revelations about another business deal with Uzbekistan, which came after a request from the daughter of the country’s president who “needed more money”.
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TeliaSonera to cut 2,000 jobs as earnings fall
Business & Money: 17 Oct 12
TeliaSonera will shed 2,000 workers as part of a 2 billion kronor ($300 million) savings package, the Swedish-Finnish telecoms giant announced on Wednesday along with its third quarter results.
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Assets of Telia's Uzbek partner frozen in Sweden
Science & Technology: 15 Oct 12
A Stockholm court on Monday ordered more than $30 million held in a Swedish bank by an Uzbek company with ties to Swedish-Finnish telecoms giant TeliaSonera be frozen as part of an ongoing money-laundering probe.
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Russians arrest imam shooting suspect
National: 13 Oct 12
Russian security services have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of the attempted murder of an imam in northern Sweden in February.
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TeliaSonera deal in Nepal raises new questions
Business & Money: 11 Oct 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera has been hit with new revelations about suspicious business practices in Asia, this time stemming from a complex deal with a firm tied to the former ruling family in Nepal.
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TeliaSonera CEO 'forced' to leave post early: report
Business & Money: 10 Oct 12
TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg will be leaving his post early in the wake of bribery scandals and the Nordic telecom firm's dealings with dictators. A search for his replacement is already underway.
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TeliaSonera Uzbek deal prompts bribery probe
Business & Money: 26 Sep 12
Swedish prosecutors have launched a corruption investigation into the circumstamces surrounding how telecom operator TeliaSonera acquired licences in Uzbekistan, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Top Telia boss in sex club bribery scandal
Business & Money: 25 Sep 12
A Stockholm-based manager from Swedish-Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera is under investigation for corruption in a scandal that reportedly involves expensive mobile phones, ice hockey and sex club visits.
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TeliaSonera under fire over Uzbek bribe claims
National: 20 Sep 12
The CEO of telecom giant TeliaSonera, of which the Swedish state is the largest owner, said he was prepared to resign should new money laundering and bribery accusations related to the firm's contracts in Uzbekistan prove true.
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Couple freed of aiding Uzbek imam shooter
National: 26 Jul 12
The Uzbek couple, charged with aiding the attempted murder of an imam in northern Sweden, was freed on Thursday after the court ruled that there was insufficient evidence.
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Two charged for aiding shooter of Uzbek imam
National: 7 Jul 12
Charges were filed on Friday against a married couple suspected of aiding in the attempted murder of an Uzbek imam and regime critic living in Sweden in what prosecutors believe may be a political assassination attempt.
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International school opens children’s eyes
Education: 20 Jun 12
Studying at Stockholm's oldest international school gives children not only a rigorous academic education, but also a unique understanding of other cultures.
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Exile Uzbeks suspect regime for imam attack
National: 28 May 12
Suspicions that the attempted murder against the imam Obid Nazarov in February was politically motivated are growing among Uzbeks in Sweden.
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Swedish police hunt man for imam shooting
National: 26 May 12
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man in connection with the shooting of an Uzbek imam in northern Sweden in February.
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Two held for shooting imam in northern Sweden
National: 16 May 12
Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.
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Telia Sonera may lose Stockholm as customer
Business & Money: 22 Apr 12
Stockholm municipality is currently a Telia Sonera customer, but has threatened to change providers following the revelation of Telia Sonera’s cooperation with several dictatorships, losing the company some 40,000 subscriptions.
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TeliaSonera 'profits by helping dictators spy'
Science & Technology: 18 Apr 12
TeliaSonera, the successor to Sweden's state telecom monopoly, has given state security services access to systems it operates in the former Soviet Union in order to secure lucrative contracts there, according to Swedish media reports.
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Imam shot in the head in northern Sweden
National: 23 Feb 12
A 54-year-old imam was found shot in the head in Strömsund in northwestern Sweden on Wednesday in what police have classified as attempted murder.
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Police arrest 32 in 'human trafficking' raid
National: 14 Oct 11
Swedish police arrested 32 people in a raid on a food factory south of Stockholm on Thursday for violations of the Aliens Act.
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Trucker goes berserk in bizarre berry picker blitz
Society: 15 Aug 11
A 42-year-old truck driver is being questioned by police in central Sweden after he tried to run down two berry pickers and then used a truck to drag their car 700 metres before dumping it in a ditch.
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Religious conflict on the rise in Sweden: study
National: 10 Aug 11
Sweden is one of the ten countries worldwide where social hostilities related to religion are increasing the most, according to a newly published American study.
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Sweden deported family to wrong country
National: 11 Apr 11
A family deported to Uzbekistan after Sweden rejected their application for asylum is set to return to Sweden after Uzbek authorities concluded that they were not from the central Asian country.
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‘Terrorism is a battle of minds, not of bombs’
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 10
As Sweden struggles to come to grips with the suicide bomb attack that shook central Stockholm on Saturday, Sweden-based Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil argues that the defence of freedom involves raising questions rather than throwing bombs in retaliation.
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Smartphone sales boost profits for TeliaSonera
Business & Money: 25 Oct 10
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera said on Monday that sales of smartphones, coupled with growth in eastern Europe and Asia, boosted third-quarter profits and its outlook for fiscal-year results.
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Local Sweden Democrat: 'ban' practicing Muslims
Politics: 11 Sep 10
A local politician from the far-right Sweden Democrats argued during an election debate on Thursday that Muslims shouldn't be allowed to practice their faith in Strömsund in northwestern Sweden.
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Bildt calls for action over Kyrgyzstan unrest
Politics: 22 Jun 10
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt joined his German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle on Monday to express their deep concern over the ongoing violence in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan urging international intervention.
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Sweden sheltering terrorist cleric: Uzbek TV
National: 29 May 10
A cleric based in Sweden has been accused by Uzbek state television of instigating a suicide attack on the US embassy in 2004, as well as directing a series of high-profile killings last year.
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'Isolationism is passé - Sweden needs to join NATO': Liberals
Analysis & Opinion: 12 May 09
With neutrality outdated and Sweden unable to effectively defend it's borders, the country needs to set aside its hang-ups and start thinking seriously about joining NATO, argues Birgitta Ohlsson, foreign policy spokesperson for the Liberal Party.
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Migration Board 'putting pressure on deportees'
National: 23 Dec 08
Sweden's Migration Board has come under fire for allegedly pressuring candidates for deportation to sign agreements obliging them to leave the country rather than appeal their cases.
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TeliaSonera posts solid quarterly results
Business & Money: 24 Jul 08
Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera, which recently snubbed a takover bid from France Telecom, reported strong second-quarter results on Thursday, but slightly missed analyst's expectations.
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Uzbek refugee sues Swedish shopping mall
National: 3 Jun 08
A patriotic Uzbek refugee is seeking seeking 1 million kronor ($166,000) in damages from a shopping mall in southern Swedish for degrading the name of his hometown.
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Learning Swedish: accept no substitutes
Lifestyle: 10 Oct 07
Swedes might speak great English, but there's no substitute for getting your tongue around the Swedish language. Fiona Basile finds that learning the lingo needn't be a nightmare.
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Swede hacks governments around the world
Science & Technology: 31 Aug 07
A Swedish IT consultant has published a list of secret log-in details belonging to 100 embassies, public authorities and political parties around the world.
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TeliaSonera splashes out on Asian mobile operator
Business & Money: 17 Jul 07
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera has bought US-based MCT, a provider of mobile services in central Asia, for 2.0 billion kronor.
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Swedish soldiers attacked in Afghanistan
National: 7 Feb 06
Soldiers in the Nordic peacekeeping force based in Meymaneh, in north-west Afghanistan, have been attacked by hundreds of demonstrators armed with guns and hand grenades.
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Swedish soldier dies in Afghanistan
Smörgåsbord: 26 Nov 05
One of four Swedish soldiers wounded in a bomb attack in northern Afghanistan has died of his injuries. Another Swedish peacekeeper is in a serious condition in hospital after the explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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Government lets apathetic boy stay
Politics: 7 Jul 05
In what could be a landmark decision, the government has taken into account the mental health of a so-called 'apathetic' child in reaching a decision about an family's asylum application
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Sweden reconsiders Uzbekistan base
Politics: 13 Jun 05
Sweden must remove Uzbekistan military base - Amnesty
After scathing criticism from Amnesty, Sweden's defence minister agrees to "find alternatives" to stationing troops in Uzbekistan, whose recent record on human rights is suspect.
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Sweden must remove Uzbekistan military base - Amnesty
Politics: 12 Jun 05
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International called on Sweden to remove its military base from Uzbekistan, a country charged with violating its citizens' right to protest, the Swedish press reported on Sunday.
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