FSB border guards
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Newly erected double barbed wire fence along parts of the border to Norway.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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The new double barbed wire fence along Russia's border to Norway in the north. The actual border line follows the deepest part of Pasvik river in the background.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Russian Border Commissioner Vitaly Mikhailov (right) together with Norwegian Border Commissioner Ivar Sakserud.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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New camera surveillance along the barbed wire fence on Russia's border to Norway.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Piles of barbed wire fence are waiting to be outstretched along this part of Russia's border to Norway.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Four bears walking along the barbed wire border fence on the Russian side of the border. This image is from a video taken by a border surveillance camera not far from Salmijervi.Photo from surveillance camera.
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Two Norwegian police officers stands on the sideline when Russia's Border Commissioner Vitaly Mikhailov welcomes Norway's Border Commissioner Ivar Sakserud to the Rusian side of the Pasvik river.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Vadim Suvorov demonstrates the border guards' portable personnel radar. Two persons can carry the radar around in the terrain.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Two of FSB's border guards demonstrating how they are trespassing the barbed wire fence using the weapons.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Surveillance camera rigged up in a vehicle that by short notice can drive to different areas of the border.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Soldiers from the Norwegian Border Guard Battalion arrives to Salmijervi on the Russian side of the Pasvik River.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Norwegian border guard soldiers test-firing with Russian AK-74 rifles.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Eivind Arnsby tests one of the Russian PKM weapons at the firing range for FSB's border guards.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Norwegian soldier test firing with a Russian AK-74 rifle.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Jonas Røttingen is proudly showing his results from the test shooting at the bull's eye.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Halvor Stavland holding the Russian AK-74 rifle at the border guards fire range near Salmijervi.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Åshild Guttormsen with the Norwegian Border Guard Battalion inspects her results at the bull's eye poster.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Soldiers from Norwegian Border Guard Battalion holding the different weapons used by FSB's border guards.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Konstantin Pogadaev (left) and Lars Erik Gausen are border guards' press service officers on each side of the border.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Norwegian police officers Einar Ingilæ and Hans Møllebakken visited the Russian border guards in Salmijervi together with the military delegation.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Border guard mascot.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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FSB border guard officers give instructions to the Norwegian border soldiers about today's program.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Norwegian soldiers embarking FSB border guards' vehicle.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Eirik Eye Aagaard testing the telescopoic sight of a Russian VSK weapon.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Andreas Olsen testing a long-range weapon while Lars Erik Gausen watch.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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This flying drone has a thermal imaging camera, can fly to a hight of 100 meters and stay in the air for up to 30 minutes. FSB has two such drones in service along the border to Norway.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Vadim Suvorov demonstrates how the latest searchlight works. The light, placed on the truck body, has a range of up to 10 kilometers.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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FSB border guards at the camp in Salmijervi.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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Norwegian border guard soldiers crossing the Pasvik River by speed boat.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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A four-man border guard partol check the sand for footprints that could expose a possible illegal trespasser.Photo: Thomas Nilsen / BarentsObserver
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