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.
Head of the Council of Europe and former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, with very strong critic against the draft law suggesting to brand non-governmental organizations receiving grants from abroad as “foreign agents.”
“I am confident that the lessons we have learned during the last 20 years are useful to other regions,” said Rune Rafaelsen, head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat speaking at the OSCE workshop on reconciliation in Vienna on Tuesday.
Murmansk Governor Marina Kovtun today offered head of the regional branch of the Communist Party Gennady Stepakhno position as Deputy Governor responsible for the region’s agriculture sector.
Putin’s chief propagandist and television host had already booked his fishing vacation to Gjesvær in Finnmark when EU included him on the visa sanction list, also followed by Norway.
The pressure against Russian NGOs is getting harder. In Murmansk two youth organizations are under investigation for failing to register as foreign agents.
After 20 years of supporting people-to-people contacts with Northwest-Russia, Nordic Council of Ministers’ St. Petersburg office got a surprise letter from the procurators office.
“Crimea is ours” – “Crimea is Russia” The slogans on the central square of Arkhangelsk had the same clear messages as similar rallies in most major cities around Russia Wednesday evening.
The Barents Council is a great example of international cooperation on regional level, Arkhangelsk Governor Igor Orlov underlines to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Regional identity is on the priority list of the new Russian Barents Council chairmanship along with cross-border transportation, climate, culture and tourism.
