Atle Berge, the owner of Ølen Betong Murmansk, is back in business with a new visa and work permit to the country that six years ago expelled him on vague accusations of espionage.
Tourism, mining and forestry could all benefit from a new railway across Lapland, with possible extension to existing tracks via northern Sweden to Norway’s port of Narvik.
The Russian Ministry of Energy issues notes to national energy, metal and mineral companies requesting 100% of employees to show up at military recruitment offices.
Company Nornickel claims environment on the site of its major diesel oil spill is satisfactory. Investigations by a visiting environmentalist indicate otherwise.
After more than 20 years of Norwegian participation, Equinor this week announced that it abandons the field located on Russia's far northern Nenets tundra.
After more than eight years of joint planning, the Fennovoima nuclear power company terminates its cooperation with Russian state controlled company RAOS Project.
Nuclear-powered freighter Sevmorput continues to shuttle with construction goods to field development sites along the Yenisey River as part of Rosneft's Vostok Oil project.
Russian customs officials have classified export and import data to avoid “misinterpretations” ahead of an anticipated drop in trade amid heavy Western sanctions for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Energy projects are put on hold and hyped ambitions for the Northern Sea Route increasingly look doomed. At the same time, the country is frozen out of international Arctic cooperation
Andrey Melnichenko, owner of EuroChem’s mining and metallurgy subsidiary Kovdorskiy GOK, is sanctioned by the European Union in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Canada and the UK have already imposed a ban on Russian-owned, operated, chartered, registered or flagged vessels from docking at ports. Now, the European Union and Norway could follow.