Today we mark the 70 years anniversary for one of the many events that took place in the Northern areas of Norway, Russia and Finland during WWII. On August 16, 1940, the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha, the Princesses Ragnhild and Astrid and Prince...
Loaded with iron ore concentrate, the first ever foreign flag bulk carrier might sail the Northeast Passage in early September. Climate changes with melting Arctic sea ice will change the shipping routes from Europe to Asia, says the Norwegian ship o...
The head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat’s Russian offices, Andrey Shalyov, is to become Norway’s Honorary Consul in Arkhangelsk. The Honorary Consulate will be opened in September.
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Read all the articles related to the historical state visit to Norway by Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev. After almost 40 years of negotiations Norway and Russia reached a deal on maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
China can make a valuable contribution in the Arctic region, Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in a speech at the China Institute of Internatio...
Norway has lifted the ban on fishing of Atlantic-Scandinavian herring outside Svalbard and in the north-eastern parts of the Norwegian Economic Zone. 
The Norwegian Coast Guard wants to move its headquarters to Sortland in northern Norway in order to get closer to waters in the High North. However, hardly ...
The aircraft producer Boeing plans to test an airplane of the type Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on the Longyear airport on Svalbard.
A team of researchers headed by the well-know scientist Jørn Hurum might have done a historic dinosaur finding at Svalbard.
Norwegian authorities have imposed tougher requirements for cleaning of emissions from the coal-fired power plant in the Russian settlement Barentsburg on th...
The world’s largest traditional sailing ship, Sedov, will visit the Arctic archipelagos of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya.
Norwegian authorities will introduce passport control for travelers to and from the Norwegian mainland to Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town.
The fish industry in Murmansk fears that the Russian-Norwegian deal on the delineation of the Barents Sea will deprive Russian fishermen of vital fishing gro...
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