Two hundred kilometres above the Arctic Circle hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers are finding a new life in northern Norway, but recently the doors have been shutting on those desperate to start fresh in the High North.
In 2009 northern Norway experienced the highest population growth since 1974. For 35 years northern Norway has had a steady decline in population, but last year the population grew with 2196.
Russia has almost 44 million cigarette smokers. That makes the country the world’s most-smoking nation, figures from the World Health Organization show.
KIRUNA: European financial crisis is of no concern and unemployment does not exist. Iron ore company LKAB’s profit is skyrocketing as they dig their way deeper and deeper down under the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. Now, the town has to move to prevent it from sinking into the cracks left by the mine.
Murmansk’s unique, self-governed youth house is flourishing with creativity and plans but after a screening of the German documentary “Khodorkovsky”, the future of the house is uncertain.
The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz wanted to find the Northern Sea Route. He found Spitsbergen and got an ocean named after him, but his dream of finding a new route to Asia ended on the eastern shores of Novaya Zemlya.
