The gas company is abandoning the Shtokman project and instead revives plans for a LNG plant on the Baltic Sea coast.
The gas company is abandoning the Shtokman project and instead revives plans for a LNG plant on the Baltic Sea coast.
Facebook has signed a five-year agreement with the energy producer Vattenfall AB on renewable electricity for its computer center in Luleå in Northern Sweden.
Russia is planning two test launches of the Bulava ballistic missile this year. The tests will be conducted by the country’s two newest nuclear-powered submarines.
For the first time since the collapse of the USSR, ballistic missile submarines from Russia’s Kola Peninsula will next year patrol oceans on the southern hemisphere. And Murmansk-based aircraft-carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will by year-end sail to the Mediterranean.
KIRKENES: Russia’s metal-giant in Nikel is notoriously violating the maximum allowed limits for air quality on the Norwegian side of the border. Sør-Varanger Mayor Cecilie Hansen says enough is enough and files charges.
Record numbers of blue whales were spotted off the coast of Svalbard and Jan Mayen Island, but researchers say the increase in sightings doesn't necessarily mean an increase in whales.
After half a year with financial difficulties for Northland Resources, their situation is solved in a 240 million EUR rescue plan. Last week machine operator Jörgen Norman and his colleagues could finally start up their giant diggers again.
HAPARANDA: Despite hailing from four countries the young business owners voiced a single opinion during the Barents Reunion: The North is rich with opportunity but needs to think globally to support fledgling businesses, say Young Barents Entrepreneurs
Norway’s first ice-classed research vessel will be named after the country’s Crown Prince Haakon. The name was chosen through a contest on public radio.
China plans to establish a China-Nordic Arctic Research Center in Shanghai in partnership with a number of research institutes in the Nordic countries.
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.
STORSKOG: Dmitri Medvedev and Jens Stoltenberg concluded the Barents Summit with a relaxed walk over the joint Norwegian, Russian border after getting their own visa-free ID-cards.
KIRKENES. The Russian prime minister wants to see new joint projects within the field of industry and transportation and proposes the introduction of Barents regional visa-free traveling.
Foreign Ministers will pursue and concretize the direction of the cooperation set by the new Kirkenes Declaration signed at the Barents Summit.
Indigenous Peoples activist Dmitry Berezhkov is a free man after a court decision in Northern Norway on Saturday says the conditions for extradition to Russia is not present.
The number of young people and their share in the total Russian population has declined steadily in recent years.
Norwegian researcher Salve Dahle fears Russia’s new law requiring NGOs to register as foreign agents could have a chilling effect on research cooperation in the Barents Region.