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.
20 years of Barents cooperation has helped eliminating stereotypes and prejudices, but more work is needed to make the changes irreversible. The conference “Breaking Stereotypes in the Barents Region” that opened in Arkhangelsk yesterday marks the beginning for a new program for better cross-cultural communication.
Yandex, Russia’s biggest search engine, saw more daily visitors last month than the number of any television channel’s viewers, with a record 19 million visitors each day.
Northern Norway has had the highest increase in the number of air travels during the last 10-15 years. The people of Finnmark are the most frequent flyers in the country.
A wave of Orthodoxy takes Russia, so also in the north. The construction of the tallest church-building in the Barents Region is changing the skyline of the city.
The town of Kirkenes on the border to Russia was blessed with unusual nice weather on this year’s National Day. Have a look at how the town’s people celebrated “syttende mai”.
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.
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.
