Newly erected double barbed wire fence along parts of the border to Norway.
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The new double barbed wire fence along Russia's border to Norway in the north. The actual border line follows the deepest part of Pasvik river in the background.
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Russian Border Commissioner Vitaly Mikhailov (right) together with Norwegian Border Commissioner Ivar Sakserud.
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New camera surveillance along the barbed wire fence on Russia's border to Norway.
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Piles of barbed wire fence are waiting to be outstretched along this part of Russia's border to Norway.
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Four bears walking along the barbed wire border fence on the Russian side of the border. This image is from a video taken by a border surveillance camera not far from Salmijervi.
Photo from surveillance camera.
Two Norwegian police officers stands on the sideline when Russia's Border Commissioner Vitaly Mikhailov welcomes Norway's Border Commissioner Ivar Sakserud to the Rusian side of the Pasvik river.
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Vadim Suvorov demonstrates the border guards' portable personnel radar. Two persons can carry the radar around in the terrain.
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Two of FSB's border guards demonstrating how they are trespassing the barbed wire fence using the weapons.
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Surveillance camera rigged up in a vehicle that by short notice can drive to different areas of the border.
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Soldiers from the Norwegian Border Guard Battalion arrives to Salmijervi on the Russian side of the Pasvik River.
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Norwegian border guard soldiers test-firing with Russian AK-74 rifles.
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Eivind Arnsby tests one of the Russian PKM weapons at the firing range for FSB's border guards.
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Norwegian soldier test firing with a Russian AK-74 rifle.
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Jonas Røttingen is proudly showing his results from the test shooting at the bull's eye.
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Halvor Stavland holding the Russian AK-74 rifle at the border guards fire range near Salmijervi.
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Åshild Guttormsen with the Norwegian Border Guard Battalion inspects her results at the bull's eye poster.
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Soldiers from Norwegian Border Guard Battalion holding the different weapons used by FSB's border guards.
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Konstantin Pogadaev (left) and Lars Erik Gausen are border guards' press service officers on each side of the border.
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Norwegian police officers Einar Ingilæ and Hans Møllebakken visited the Russian border guards in Salmijervi together with the military delegation.
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Border guard mascot.
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FSB border guard officers give instructions to the Norwegian border soldiers about today's program.
Eirik Eye Aagaard testing the telescopoic sight of a Russian VSK weapon.
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Andreas Olsen testing a long-range weapon while Lars Erik Gausen watch.
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This flying drone has a thermal imaging camera, can fly to a hight of 100 meters and stay in the air for up to 30 minutes. FSB has two such drones in service along the border to Norway.
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Vadim Suvorov demonstrates how the latest searchlight works. The light, placed on the truck body, has a range of up to 10 kilometers.
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FSB border guards at the camp in Salmijervi.
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Norwegian border guard soldiers crossing the Pasvik River by speed boat.
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A four-man border guard partol check the sand for footprints that could expose a possible illegal trespasser.