Kjell Albin Abrahamson is a Swedish

Sweden

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 journalist and author. He is currently Swedish National Radio's

Sveriges Radio

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 senior correspondent to Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Poland

Poland

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, a position he previously held in Moscow

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, USSR (1986–1990), twice in Vienna

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, Austria

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 (1990–1994 and 2001–2004) and once before in Warsaw (1994–1997). He also writes for Sydsvenska Dagbladet and op-ed

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 pieces for Länstidningen of Östersund

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Abrahamson has written a number of initiated books about the transitional characteristics of Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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 and Russia

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. After the assassination of the Russian

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 journalist Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya

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, Abrahamson blamed the Russia

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n President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

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, naming him "Gasputin" (an obvious mockery of the president, Gazprom

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, and the Russian mystic

Mysticism

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 Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin

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), concluding: "With oil and gas, (Putin) has succeeded, where the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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- despite having nuclear weapons - failed".

Selected bibliography

• Munkavlen och ordet : [Polen 81] = [Knebel i slowo] : [Polska 81], Göteborg : Maneten, 1981. ISBN 978-91-7576-002-5
• Från stormakt till Big Mac : oväsentligheter om Sovjetunionen, Stockholm : Norstedt, 1991. ISBN 978-91-1-911772-4
• Fakta om Tjeckien och Slovakien, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994. ISBN 978-91-21-15202-7
• Balkan betyder berg : [reporter i krigets Jugoslavien], Stockholm : Fischer, 1995. ISBN 978-91-7054-770-6
• Fakta om Österrike och Schweiz, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996. ISBN 978-91-21-14561-6
• Polen - diamant i aska (Polska - diament w popiele), Stockholm : Fischer, 1997. ISBN 978-91-7054-850-5
• Sverige och Polen : Szwecja i Polska, Stockholm : Svenska institutet, 2000. ISBN 978-91-520-0642-9
• Den harmynte humoristen, Stockholm : Fischer, 2002. ISBN 978-91-7054-954-0
• Enkel biljett till Polen, Rimbo : Fischer & Co, 2004. ISBN 978-91-85183-04-3