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.
Russia’s top epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko says Russian regions should take measures to keep students and schoolchildren from going abroad in order to prevent spreading of the swine flu.
The two oil companies Norwegian Statoil and French Total, are operating the Kharyaga oil field in Nenets AO in the far north of Russia. As a thank you for the good cooperation with the regional administration, the oil companies has co financed a school building in Naryan Mar.
Both the Samovar Theatre in Kirkenes and the Stellaris Dance Theatre in Hammerfest, both situated in the northernmost county of Norway, celebrates their long lasting existence in 2010. To mark the anniversary, they co arrange the theatre play “Mother Courage and her children”, by Bertolt Brecht.
The city court of Arkhangelsk will not grant Igor Sutyagin, the researcher serving a 15-year a controversial sentence for espionage in a local prison, early release. –He has not improved sufficiently, the court says.
The new draft constitution in Sweden calls the Saami people a fully-fledged people and not a minority. That will strengthen the rights of the Saami, a law expert say.
Top diplomat Øyvind Nordsletten is in place as new Consul General in Russia’s largest Arctic city. He spent his first day by introducing Norwegian parliamentarians to the booming cross-border relations between Murmansk and Norway.
