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.
Russian anti-corruption authorities suspect that the leaders of the Kolenergosbyt company in Murmansk has stolen more than one billion rubles. The company says the allegations are “without common sense”.
The population of Norway’s northernmost county Finnmark continues to increase. The region received 267 more inhabitants in the third quarter of 2012 and is now up in a total of 74 509.
January 11th marks the 20-years anniversary of the Barents cooperation. BarentsObserver congratulates all participants of this unique cross-border bridge-building network between east and west at the top of Europe. We look forward to the coming years of successful interregional formalized cooperation between the northern parts of Norway, Russia, Finland and Sweden.
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”
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Barents Euro-Arctic Cooperation and the upcoming Barents Summit, we here present 20 different views on the success behind and the future of the Barents Region.
Football players and cross-country skiers already in the 1960s crossed the borders between East and West to compete. Today, sports continues to be a core part in the Barents Cooperation.
A small publishing house in Kirkenes is publishing Russian textbooks in mathematics to be used in Norwegian primary schools. Russian curriculum has already been tested on Norwegian school children with good results.
