Elizaveta Vereykina

Norwegian government backs up deep-sea mining plan, but environmentalists warn about disastrous consequences.

December 06, 2023

“It's a classic case of scapegoating”. Experts react to Russia’s ban of “LGBT movement”.

November 30, 2023

Svalbard residents on the boycott of Russia, climate change, and search for a new sustainable energy source.

November 25, 2023

“We used to discuss cross-border issues with Russians at one table. Now it has stopped.” Reindeer herders in the north of Norway feel left out as cooperation with Russia shrinks.

November 09, 2023

“They shot them in the head and threw them into dug-out pits”: The tragic story of American Finns who perished during Stalin's purges, and how history repeats itself in Russia today.

“Raise our daughter loyal to the cause of the working class”. These were the last words of the Finn Alexander Koskelainen to his wife, when on January 2, 1938, he was arrested by the Stalinist security service NKVD under charges of “agitation and propaganda”. On February 11, 1938, he was shot dead by a firing squad.
October 30, 2023

Local elections in Svalbard are held for the first time with new restrictions for foreigners

On a day of victory for the Venstre party, some residents held a protest against new voting rules for non-Norwegian citizens residing in Longyearbyen.
October 10, 2023

“We are peaceful people. How are we sponsoring the war?” Russians react to Norway's entry ban for Russian cars.

The Barents Observer spoke to people in a shopping centre parking lot in the border town of Kirkenes, arctic Norway.
October 01, 2023

“We are peaceful people. How are we sponsoring the war?” Russians react to Norway's entry ban for Russian cars.

The Barents Observer spoke to people in a shopping centre parking lot in the border town of Kirkenes, arctic Norway.
October 01, 2023

Risky project conducted in Greenland to understand the scale of climate crisis

A hidden climate danger: Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet to intensify climate warming, scientists warn. A unique project to access the ice-sheet bed hopes to expose the scale of the problem.
September 18, 2023

“Bye-bye plastic!” Big ocean clean-up in Tromsø

Divers comb the seabed in search of rubbish that's been accumulating there for years.
September 12, 2023

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