Today’s big topic: A company under Putin has registered an address in Tappernøje. Right next to critical infrastructure
Politiken visited the compressor station near Tappernøje, which is fenced in and surrounded, above all, by open fields.
What’s happening?
Evgeniy Logvinov is a graduate of the academy of Russia’s F.S.B. intelligence service. He served in the Russian military for more than a decade. And in 2024, he signed a document from the Danish Business Authority. That means the paperwork is in order, and a controversial company under Mr. Putin’s administration has, with the law on its side, registered its address at a manor house deep in the countryside near Tappernøje in southern Zealand.
But beneath the surface – literally just below the ground on the estate – lies something far more important. Not just for Denmark, but for Europe. Running beneath the property is the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline, created to bypass Russian gas, and a few miles away, in the open fields, sits the compressor station that makes the whole system work.
That is what Politiken can reveal after reviewing a range of documents, maps, and site plans.
Why it matters!
Whether it is a coincidence that a company under Mr. Putin’s administration has registered an address so close to critical European infrastructure is not known. Nor do we know whether the company has personnel there.
But that does not change the fact that it is enormously problematic, several of the country’s leading experts say. Put simply, they argue, it is unacceptable that a company under Mr. Putin’s administration can legally register an address so close to critical infrastructure.
In fact, »it is naive to believe that this does not pose a security risk«, says Jacob Kaarsbo, a security policy adviser. He is a former chief analyst at the Danish Defence Intelligence Service, and he has seen how Russia positions itself close to critical infrastructure in other European countries.
Still curious? Read the full article here.
In other news
– First November weekend will be unusually mild
A mild and relatively calm spell of fall weather is on the way this weekend, which will be marked by clouds and will end with a bit of scattered rain on Sunday. That is according to Erik Hansen, the duty meteorologist at the Danish Meteorological Institute, early Friday morning, Ritzau reports.
»There is a chance of a few glimpses of sunshine here and there, but otherwise it will be cloudy before a patch of light rain moves across the country on Sunday«, he says.
– PET warns Ukrainians in Denmark about Russian exploitation
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, PET, is warning Ukrainians in Denmark about the risk of being exploited by Russian intelligence services for acts of sabotage, Ritzau reports.
It is doing so by distributing informational material in Ukrainian, PET said in a news release. PET has previously warned the Danish public, but Russian intelligence services may also try to recruit among Ukrainians in Denmark.
– Receiving packages from countries outside the EU will become more expensive on Sunday
Starting Sunday, November 1, the European Union will introduce a handling fee on packages arriving from countries outside the bloc, Ritzau reports. That was announced by the Danish Customs Agency in a news release on Friday.
The fee is permanent and will be 2 euros (around 15 DKK) per item category in a package. It applies regardless of the package’s total value.
This weekend’s itinerary
The dish of yellow beets, salted currants, cream cheese, radicchio salad and toasted buckwheat looks so colorful and appetizing that it is impossible not to feel cheered.
What to eat?
Carlsberg City District can still make Nasra Jama feel as though she’s walking around in a computer-animated version of a city that has just been completed. But now Bohrs Café & Deli has taken over the space that once housed &deli in the neighborhood, and thankfully it is more than just another polished addition to the streetscape.
Nasra Jama gave the café five hearts in her review.
»The yellow beets with salted currants, cream cheese, radicchio salad, and toasted buckwheat (125 kroner). The combination of sweet, tart, toasted, and crunchy really worked, and the plate itself was so colorful and appetizing that it could only put you in a good mood. It comes with sourdough bread, so you can mop up the last of the olive oil and cream cheese – j’adore!
Then there’s the focaccia with stracciatella, tarragon, corn, chanterelles, and finely grated cheese (105 kroner), which looked so lavish that the people next to us, who were actually on their way out, had to stop and ask what we had been served«.
What to drink?
»The coffee is from Original Coffee and is, as one might hope, very good indeed. A flat white costs 45 kroner, while a latte is 49 kroner. There are also organic lemonades and kombucha. I had a ’Sort Citron’ from Gro (40 kroner), a lemonade with activated charcoal that slowly settles at the bottom of the bottle. Very delicious, but remember to shake the bottle!«
Still curious? Read the full article here.
This newsletter features stories originally published in Danish. AI was used to shorten and translate the articles into English, after which a member of the editorial staff reviewed and refined the content.