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.
Sør-Varanger municipality on the border to Russia and Finland has inhabitants from 64 nations. For the first time in 17 years, the number of citizens has reached 10.000.
Hålogaland Appellate Court Tuesday turned down the Norwegian police plea to extradite indigenous peoples activist Dmitry Berezhkov to Russian authorities.
Aleksandr Serebryanikov, better known as Blogger 51, faces charges of extremism according to sources within the power structures in Murmansk Wednesday evening.
Norwegian researcher Salve Dahle fears Russia’s new law requiring NGOs to register as foreign agents could have a chilling effect on research cooperation in the Barents Region.
Three cadets from the Norwegian Police University College claim they were assaulted and robbed on their way out after a late evening at the striptease bar XXXX in Murmansk. Local law enforcement sources tells another story.
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg today laid down wreaths at the memorial to the Red Army soldier in Kirkenes.
When the Kirkenes Declaration was signed in 1993, it marked the establishment of a new type of international relations that had been impossible during the Cold War, says Professor Oleg Andreev.
The Murmansk State Humanities University and the University of Nordland are joining forces over the establishment of a cross-border research center in Nikel, the border town between Russia and Norway.
