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 National Archives of Norway are marking Liberation Day by releasing newly digitalized photos and documents from Northern Norway from the period 1944-1945.
As Russia is preparing for the largest Victory Day celebrations ever, an official delegation from Murmansk is travelling in Eastern Finnmark to pay tribute to Russians and Norwegians who fell during WWII.
The head of Finland’s Sámi Parliament told a United Nations gathering in New York that the Finnish government has robbed her people of their right to define themselves by failing to sign up to an international convention on indigenous people’s rights.
Both procurator’s office and regional Ministry of Justice have earlier cleared the environmental organization from suspected political activity, but since they failed to voluntarily sign up as foreign agent, the risk is a fine of 300,000 to 500,000 rubles.
The sharp downturn in Russian economy is putting the job market in strain. “The situation is under control”, the country’s minister of employment argues.