Alexander Stubb, famous in the Barents Region for branding the north as the world´s most sexy region, is put on track to take over after Jyrki Katainen.
Thanks to Swedish and Finnish grants, the Working Group of Indigenous Peoples is up and running again after halting its activities for almost four months.
Conservative leader Erna Solberg forms a minority government with the Progress party with parliament backing from the Liberals and Christian Democrats based on an agreement not to open for controversial Arctic oil drilling.
The state should play a smaller role in the economy and the individual should be the driving force in the development of society, Dmitry Medvedev says in his new article. But he does not with a word mention the role of civil society or non-governmental organizations.
Twenty years after Russia legalized homosexuality, legislators have proposed a new bill that could lead to gay couples losing custody of their children.
SALEKHARD: Commenting on the situation with Greenpace’s protest against Gazprom’s platform “Prirazlomnaya” and the following boarding of the vessel by FSB, President Vladimir Putin supports the arrest of the crew.
MURMANSK: Member of the Norwegian Sami Parliament arrested by immigration authorities after participating at the annual meeting in the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region.
Norway’s center-right government, expected to assume power after landslide election victory, will maintain people to people cooperation across northern borders with focus on organizations and institutions.
Bruce I.Turner is impressed by the Barents cooperation success on the regional level. He stresses the importance of people-to-people cooperation and would like to have the same for Russia and the US.
Indigenous Peoples activist Dmitry Berezhkov is a free man after a court decision in Northern Norway on Saturday says the conditions for extradition to Russia is not present.
