The 15 euros tariffs per cubic meter of timber will continue, despite Finnish forest industry has reiterated calls for tariffs to be removed completely.
The projected Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea is not a security issue, former prime minister and currently Nord Stream adviser Paavo Lipponen maintains. He is supported by Finnish Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies
MURMANSK: The Murmansk regional parliament will adopt the legislation necessary for a successful oil and gas development in the region, parliament speaker Yevgenii Nikora said today.
Larisa Arap, the political active human rights activist, has been hospitalized after unknown attackers beat and injured her near her place of work in Murmansk.
Barack Obama got the prize for his initiative to reduce the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. But, the tactical nuclear weapons Russia is believed to have in storage on the Kola Peninsula will not be an issue when U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, goes to Moscow next week to discuss nuclear arms reduction.
The Norwegian Border Commissioner for the Norwegian-Russian border Colonel Ivar Magne Sakserud recently visited the Rybachiy peninsula, thus becoming the first Norwegian officer to be permitted entry to the closed area.
The Russian government might sell a major stake in the country’s biggest shipping company, Sovcomflot. The sales are to cover the company’s development of a fleet for the offshore oil and gas industry.
