The Norwegian Barents Secretariat gets NOK 36 million to bilateral Norwegian-Russian project cooperation in 2010, up one million from last year.

Despite the economical crises, there was a slight increase in the numbers of Russian tourists visiting the northernmost part of Norway last year.

It is a biological mystery; the Black-legged Kittiwakes have already arrived in the coastal border areas between Norway and Russia in the north. The birds are nesting between ice and snow.

airBaltic is launching four new flights to destinations in Barents Region making Riga the new hub for interconnecting flights between east and west in the north.

Environmentalist rage against the Norwegian government’s proposal to open waters located near the Lofoten area for oil drilling.

Trade between Russia and its Nordic neighbors in 2009 dropped dramatically, figures from the Russian Customs Service show.

A new study, evaluating the prospects of an Arctic railway from Rovaniemi in northern Finland to the North-Norway coastal town of Kirkenes, shows a large potential. The estimates conclude that there could be a market for up to 40 daily trains from Finland to the Barents Sea coast.

Is there a Barents identity? That is one of the questions asked in the exhibition Pan Barentz, now on display in Moscow.

The next few years will provide new possibilities in the High North believes newly elected President of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association Thor Jørgen Guttormsen.

Murmanshelf, the association of oil- and gas suppliers in Murmansk Oblast and Northwest Russia, recently held an international seminar in Murmansk on cluster formation in the region’s oil and gas industry.