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The 29th Midnight Sun Film Festival held in Sodankylä, Lapland, wrapped up Sunday. 25,000 visitors flocked to see films in the northern cult festival.

KAUTOKEINO: Even though the Kildin Sámi language is at risk of dying out, the culture and traditions can be saved through music.

The traditional ski race crossing the borders of Norway, Russia and Finland is cancelled due to lack of snow.

The world famous Bolshoi Ballet performed in Tromsø at the Northern Lights Festival this weekend.

Arkhangelsk city and Norwegian Barents Secretariat cooperate on making the annual winter festival international.

First time a city in the Barents Region takes on the prestigious mantle of being one of the two EU capitals of culture.

LUJÁVRI: Sámi ensemble travelled for hours on snowmobiles in order to sing and dance with reindeer herders on the Kola Peninsula.

These two sparring partners proved that not only boys could be wrestling champions.

ARKHANGELSK: Two decades of relations-building was marked when the Margaritinskaya trade fair took place this weekend.

The Norwegian actress Gørild Mauseth is preparing to play the role as Lev Tolstoj’s Anna Karenina at a theatre in Vladivostok. On her way there she will make stops in Murmansk and Solovki.

Torchbearers will embark a nuclear powered icebreaker in Murmansk and bring the Sochi Olympic flame to the top of the globe in October.

Poets from China, Iceland and Sápmi gathered at the Russia-Norwegian border to cross the Cultural Boundaries and share their passion for poems.

Sami and Finnish poets team up with Icelandic and Chinese colleagues for a poetry festival in the Norwegian-Russian borderland.

ARKHANGELSK: Employees from the National Park «Russian Arctic» found an unusual and interesting way of using rusty fuel barrels brought from the Arctic islands.

More than 80 years she sank off the northern coast of Canada, a ship designed and sailed by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen will start its journey home next year.