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Norway triples visa processing time

Three days processing of visa-applications is history. “Always apply at least 15 days prior to scheduled departure. Our processing time is 10 days,” says Marit Egholm Jacobsen, head of the visa section at Norway’s Consulate General in Murmansk.

April 23, 2014
Borders

Putin urges FSB to develop Arctic border

Russian President calls on the Federal Security Service (FSB) collegium to make priority to Arctic border infrastructure.

April 07, 2014

Cross-border snail-mail

How long time does the 230 kilometer long journey take for a letter between Kirkenes and Murmansk? We have tested.

September 04, 2013

2013 saw record number in border-crossings

The Storskog-Borisoglebsk border crossing point between Norway and Russia saw a record number of 320,042 crossings in 2013.

January 03, 2014

Murmanskers travel more to Norway than to Finland

Russians living in Murmansk Oblast are now traveling more often to Norway than to Finland, according to Russian data.

August 26, 2014
Finnish police car

Torne Valley police teams up across border

Burglars on the run get harder times in the Swedish – Finnish borderland as police forces will be allowed to cross the state border.

January 22, 2015

Refugees find Arctic gate to Schengen

Norway takes measures as the influx of refugees across its Arctic border to Russia increases.

August 21, 2015
Finland, Russia

Corruption on the Russian-Finnish border

Finnish transport companies operating across the Finnish-Russian border pay an annual average of more than 50,000 EUR in bribes, YLE reports.

October 19, 2009
The BorisGleb checkpoint on Russia-Norwegian border

More comfortable border-crossing

The Russian Border Agency (Rosgranitsa) wants to facilitate cross-border travelling with the development of service infrastructure, accommodation and places to eat near the border checkpoints.

June 04, 2010
Russian cars are lining up to cross the border to Norway every Saturday morning.

All time high

People from Russia’s Kola Peninsula are queuing up for crossing the border after Norwegian authorities softened the visa-regulations. Cross-border Saturday shopping is the new fashion among Murmansk citizens.

September 22, 2010
Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb talking in Petrozavodsk.

Visa-free traveling by 2018?

I believe that a visa-free regime between Russia and the EU could be introduced in 2018, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb says.

February 15, 2011
The Norwegian border to Russia will be the first of the external Schengen borders that will be partly open for visa free travel

Consider joint border crossing facility

Norway and Russia could pioneer border crossing facilities on an external Schengen border.

November 02, 2011
Reconstruction of Storskog border station. Winter 2012.

Reconstructs before demolishing

Norway is urgently expanding its border station to Russia to meet booming traffic. The new constructions will however soon be demolished to clear the way for a brand new border station.

February 01, 2012

Murmansk governor takes on cross-border cooperation

Marina Kovtun becomes member of the Northwest Russian Council on Cross-Border Cooperation.

May 30, 2012

Visit big-city Russia, soon without visa

A 72-hour visa-free transit regime will be introduced in the cities of Moscow, Sankt Petersburg and Kazan, the Russian minister of culture says.

October 10, 2012