Kjell Albin Abrahamson
Kjell Albin Abrahamson was a Swedish journalist and author. He served as Swedish National Radio's senior correspondent to Warsaw, Poland, a position he previously held in Moscow, USSR ; twice in Vienna, Austria ; and once before in Warsaw. He also wrote for Sydsvenska Dagbladet and op-ed pieces for Länstidningen of Östersund.
Abrahamson has written a number of initiated books about the transitional characteristics of Eastern Europe and Russia. After the assassination of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Abrahamson blamed the Russian President Vladimir Putin, naming him "Gasputin", concluding: "With oil and gas, has succeeded, where the Soviet Union - despite having nuclear weapons - failed".
Abrahamson suffered a stroke and died in Gdynia, Poland on 22 September 2016.Selected bibliography
- Munkavlen och ordet : = : , Göteborg : Maneten, 1981.
- Från stormakt till Big Mac : oväsentligheter om Sovjetunionen, Stockholm : Norstedt, 1991.
- Fakta om Tjeckien och Slovakien, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994.
- Balkan betyder berg : , Stockholm : Fischer, 1995.
- Fakta om Österrike och Schweiz, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996.
- Polen - diamant i aska , Stockholm : Fischer, 1997.
- Sverige och Polen : Szwecja i Polska, Stockholm : Svenska institutet, 2000.
- Den harmynte humoristen, Stockholm : Fischer, 2002.
- Enkel biljett till Polen, Rimbo : Fischer & Co, 2004.
