The purpose with this essay is to analyze three newspapers (Aftonbladet, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet) in Sweden, and to investigate their attitudes towards the Soviet Union and Russia during the fall of the Soviet Union. I also analyzed whether the newspaper expressed political hopes in connection with the fall of the Soviet Union. Additionally, differences in utterances depending on the newspaper regarding the mentioned above was also investigated. I used the qualitative content analysis as method and the framing theory as theory during the analysis of 31 news articles from all three newspapers. All the news articles were written between 28/12-91 and 29/12-91. In summary, all newspapers had some form of negative framing towards the Soviet Union and Russia. However, Russia was not as negatively framed as the Soviet Union. All newspapers expressed political hopes for Russia and/or the other former Soviet Union states. Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet expressed hopes for Russia. Nonetheless, Expressen had more focus on their new leader Jeltsin and Svenska Dagbladet had more focus on the economy. Aftonbladet tied their political hopes to freedom and independency for the former Soviet Union states. There were few significant differences between the newspapers, although the editorials represent different political ideologies.