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.
23 years after Mikhail Gorbachev suggested setting up a Soviet-Norwegian cooperation to jointly explore the energy resources in the Arctic, Statoil and Gazprom have signed an agreement that opens for cooperation in such area as geological exploration in the Barents Sea.
New governor of the Republic of Karelia, Andrey Nelidov, has replaced almost all leaders in the administration of former governor Sergei Katanandov with newcomers with no earlier adherence to the region.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre see the opening of the honorary consulate in Arkhangelsk as a completion of some of the visions launched with the establishment of the Barents cooperation in 1993. This Friday the honorary consulate in Arkhangelsk was opened.
The strong pressure from several key EU member states to revise the Schengen Treaty makes it increasingly unlikely for Russia to get a quick introduction of visa-free traveling with the Union, a Russian analyst says.
This is the best political solution, Russian regional leaders in the Barents Region say about this weekend’s swop deal between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.
Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Murmansk and Nenets are among the Federal Districts in Russia where United Russia got fewest votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Protests triggered by election fraud in the streets of Moscow last night have not spread to the north.
The newly appointed Governor Igor Orlov takes third position amongst regional leaders in North-West Russia when it comes to positive reviews in the local mass media.
MOSCOW: “Norway and Russia are leading the way for the other Arctic nations on cooperation in the far north”, says Anton Vasiliev who is the Russian Ambassador to the Arctic.
