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Swallow a camel and increase your travel budget if you want a bed in Murmansk. Hotel Meridian in the background.

Swallow a camel and increase your travel budget if you want a bed in Murmansk. A survey made by BarentsObserver rates Murmansk as the most expensive among the 10 largest cities in the Barents Region.

The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice before melting season starts is at its lowest ever measured by satellites. Without ice the Polar bear hardly survives.

Photo: Gassco.no

There is a critical situation with gas in Murmansk Oblast, leader of a regional gas distribution company writes in an open letter to President Medvedev.

On March 14, the P-3B carried Operation IceBridge scientists and instruments to Thule Air Base in Greenland, where the Arctic 20

NASA has started an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice.

Murmansk Airport is under reconstruction (Photo Airport-Murmansk)

Construction works will keep the arrival hall at Murmansk airport closed until November.

Polar Pioneer oil rig

In April the oil rig Polar Pioneer arrives in Tromsø for rig maintenance, being the first oil rig performing such work in Tromsø.

Monks on Solovki carrying crosses and icons.

Over 1,000 crosses will be on display on Solovki in the White Sea.

Ryu Sung Rim from North Korea.

Cross-border cultural exchange is a good way to unite people, says Ryu Sung Rim.

Rocket launch at Plesetsk (mil.ru)

The military satellite launched from Plesetsk this week failed to get into orbit.

Vyacheslav Gaizer in regional government session

Head of the Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer on Friday announced that he is dismissing his whole government following its inability to fulfill his instructions.

Bombardier CRJ200 (photo: wikipedia)

Regular direct flights between the Khibiny airport in the Kola Peninsula and Moscow were resumed last week.

Sami children.

A UN report says the Nordic countries should boost their funding to the Sami parliaments in order to revitalise Sami languages and provide children of youth of that minority with an appropriate education.

The Russian nickel plant in the town Nikel near the border to Norway.

The company has prepared a request to the Russian government to tender a new nickel deposit in the Voronezh region. The pollution on the Kola Peninsula could increase.