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.
Murmansk student Anton Kosterin was evicted from University after his election protests in December. Last week he won against Murmansk State Technical University in a regional court in Murmansk.
Cooperation between Finland and the Republic of Karelia enters a new and more active phase, Governor Aleksandr Khudilainen says after his official visit to Helsinki.
New skyrocketed utilities rate met by protest rallies all over the Kola Peninsula. Putin says a 200 percent increase is “crazy” and Murmansk Governor Kovtun sacks her Minister of housing and utilities and withdraws the increase.
EU’s Economic and Social Committee recommends in its Arctic Policy opinion that key civil society partners should be given a stronger advisory role in the Barents Euro-Arctic Council.
Vladimir Putin has declined to return fire over this week’s new EU and US sanctions against his inner circle. He did warn that further action may result in retaliation, but some analysts, like Arild Moe with the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, are saying this would hurt Russia more than the West.
“The Government will support the EU’s new restrictive measures against Russia. Norway has since the start of the crisis in Ukraine stood together with the EU and neighboring countries in our reactions to Russia’s violation of international law. We will do the same this time,” says Foreign Minister Børge Brende.
“Whatever happens in the rest of the world, we must continue our cooperation,” said Murmansk Governor Marina Kovtun when she on Saturday together with Arkhangelsk Governor Igor Orlov met colleagues from Northern Norway.
