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.
The criminal case against Murmansk-based blogger Aleksander Serebryanikov, better known as Blogger51, has not been accepted by the prosecuting authorities in Murmansk Oblast and has been returned to the investigators for further investigation.
JARFJORD: Increasing focus on sharing news from the Barents Region pushes editors to discover and cooperate with news-desks across borders, language barriers and different styles of journalism.
PASVIK: Tour operator Kurt Wikan drives over potholes and bumpy roads every day on the Norwegian side of the border. “Russian roads are getting better than here in Finnmark,” he says pointing to the fact that more kilometers on the Kola Peninsula will get new asphalt this year than in entire northern Norway.
Trond Haukanes from Finnmark is going to be North-Norway’s connecting link to Brussels in the years to come, as the new head of the North-Norway European office.
The more than 50 meter high church house will be the cultural and spiritual heart of the Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Governor Marina Kovtun said when officially launching construction of the building.
