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.
The Republic of Komi is the only region in Barents Russia where the number of HIV infections continues to increase. Last year, the region registered 38.6 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Finland’s Finance Ministry says Finnish public finances will remain in deficit until the end of the decade, even if government implements proposed deep spending cuts.
Speaker in the Russian Federation Council, Sergey Mironov, says people living in the Russian north should get higher salaries and pensions, and that the system of free holidays to the south should be resumed.
The Russian Arctic research vessel ”Akademik Fyodorov” last week provided manpower and equipment for the North Pole-36 drifting Arctic research station. Eighteen researchers will spend up to 12 months on the ice floe.
Over the last few days, a number of shops in the Russian capital have run out of foodstuff. Russians are now painfully reminded about the situation in the early 1990s.
Head of the Russian Federation’s Council for Northern Affairs and Indigenous Peoples, stated in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that ensuring indigenous peoples’ legal and political situation is a priority for the Russian government.
Unemployment in Russia was down 600,000 people in May month compared with February, figures from Russian Statistics show. However, unemployment in the country remains far higher than at the same time in 2008.
