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.
Regions with powerful universities and research centers are the only population growth areas in the Barents Region, data from the last 20 years show. On top of the list are the regions of Oulu, Västerbotten and Tromsø.
New archaeological findings in the border areas between Norway and Finland suggest immigration and cultural contacts from today’s Russia to northern Finland and Norway 10.000 years ago.
The Komi Republic will this year receive 468.7 million rubles (app €10.3 million) from the state budget to move people to more central parts of Russia.
Ivan Moseev, head of the Pomor society and former Director of the Pomor Institute at the University of Arkhangelsk, who was found guilty of extremism, has turned to the European Court of Human Rights.
A large delegation from the political and administrative leadership of Finnmark County is visiting Murmansk Oblast to celebrate the first 25 years of official cooperation.
Half of the respondents in a recent poll by the Russian analytical bureau Levada-Center knew nothing or very little about the arrest of the 30 Greenpeace activists. Of those who know the story, more than half approves the authorities’ reactions: arrest and charges.
