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.
APATITY: “More than ever before we need to set a strong focus on the challenges for Russian media when it comes to press freedom and freedom of speech”, says Arne Egil Tønseth, Chairman of Barents Press Norway.
Second-hand clothes can be re-made into stylish garments. Students from Kirkenes and Murmansk show the results of their joint redesign project “Barentslook 2013”
Lessons learned and priorities for the future are up for discussion when the 20-years anniversary of the Barents cooperation will be marked in Murmansk this week.
The prestigious Andrey Sakharov prize, given by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee to the famous Russian election watchdog GOLOS triggers registration as a “foreign agent”.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Norway’s former Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre were appointed Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Tromsø yesterday.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday restored an honorary Hero of Labour title that was first awarded in the Lenin era to workers who outperformed their Communist work quotas.
FSB and other government inspectors have started a large-scale check of hundreds of Russian non-governmental organizations with the aim to find so-called “foreign agents” – groups involved in political activities with funding from abroad.
