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.
The Norwegian Storting has suddenly decided to delay the ratification of the Treaty concerning Maritime Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean until next year. The Russian Duma will also wait.
The governor of the Arkhangelsk region, Igor Orlov having been in power for 100 days, has made some conclusions concerning the existing problems in the region as well as pointed out ways to solve them.
The recent set of steps taken by the Russian government sets the country on the wrong path, and wastes the opportunity for effective modernization and democratic development, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton says.
Several cases of corruption among high-ranking officials are under investigation in the Murmansk region. A deputy in the regional Duma has been put on the federal wanted-list.
Politicians from northern Russia will come for the Barents Parliamentarian Conference starting in Harstad on Monday, but will meet only one single colleague from the north. Troms Governor Pia Svensgaard says the county councils in northern Norway are not invited.
