Scandinavian specialist Ernst Ekman of the University of California wrote that Swedish historians had been more interested in relations with Germany than with Russia and that therefore it had fallen to Russian historians to highlight relations with Sweden, particularly in respect of Russian support for Sweden during the Thirty Years' War, saying in reference to "Skandinavskii sbornik" that "the whole existence of a special journal for Soviet specialists on Scandinavia is an indication of their interest in this".