Two hundred kilometres above the Arctic Circle hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers are finding a new life in northern Norway, but recently the doors have been shutting on those desperate to start fresh in the High North.
Thousands lost their lives on the battlefields on the Kola Peninsula before the Red Army in October 1944 liberated Eastern Finnmark. Today, Murmansk Governor Marina Kovtun laid down wreaths together with Norway’s Defense Ministry.
The economic crisis in Russia has affected Finland in many ways already, now in the form of new cabin purchases coming to an almost complete halt, according to real estate agents.
Three men of Caucasian origin were yesterday found guilty in having been involved in the killing of two locals in Kondopoga, Republic of Karelia, in late August 2006. The killings, which followed a fight in the local restaurant „Chaika“, were the start of massive public disorder in the Karelian town.
The Russian Ministry of Communications and Media wants the Russian mass media to report less about peoples’ personal freedoms, wealth and consumer issues, and show more interest in education, health and patriotism. Now, a bill on the issues is in the pipeline.
Sami reindeer herders in northern Norway call for stricter regulations of all non-Sami activities in their pasture land. That prepares the ground for conflicts with the other population in the region.
President Dmitri Medvedev finally introduced the re-written law on Russian non-governmental organizations. The legislation has more relaxed restrictions on the civic groups than the legislations introduced by former president Vladimir Putin in 2006 aimed to restrict their activities.
