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.
Barents Regional Council adopts Climate Action plan, first to be implemented in Barents Russia. Plans for better cross-border transportation are also in pipe.
US lawmakers adopt a non-binding resolution urging Barack Obama to impose visa, financial, trade, military and other sanctions against Russia unless the Kremlin changes its position on the Crimea crisis.
“We can not with indifference look at the events unfolding in Ukraine,” the city mayor of Murmansk says in a letter addressed to his counterpart in the Crimea.
Norway’s Minister of Local Government and Modernisation Jan Tore Sanner believes Norway has both great opportunities and a great responsibility in the north and wants to make northern Norway into the country’s most sustainable and creative regions.
The investigation committee in Murmansk has opened a criminal case against chairman of the Murmansk regional Duma Vasily Shambir. He is accused of fraud of 42 million rubles.
Kåre Simensen, Member of the Norwegian Storting from Finnmark, says it is of importance to have a friendship association where both difficult and challenging issues could be raised.
This week U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented Russia’s Foreign Minister two potatoes during his visit to Moscow. On Monday, Norway’s Foreign Minister is expected to question Russia’s ban on Norwegian fish.
Expansion of the zone for visa-free border-crossing, cooperation in the Arctic, closer contact between the parliaments of the two nations and the situation for sexual minorities in Russia were among the issues up for discussion.
