The two reactors on “Akademik Lomonosov” will not have uranium fuel on board when being towed around Scandinavia next year.
A string of lawsuits has looming consequences for regional news agency Sever Post. Local authorities are behind it all, says agency leader Dmitry Vysotsky.
The ones who run a business in Utsjoki, northern Finland, are in distress as the new fishing restrictions in the River Teno have driven the tourists to fish in other rivers.
“This is not the result were hoping for,” says Jez Averty with Statoil after latest Barents Sea drilling.
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FSB allows Russian journalists to bring cameras, but Norwegians would only be allowed to bring pen and paper.
The renown artist wins prestigious prize from the Fine Arts Academy of Finland.
The rejected entry to Russia of Thomas Nilsen is illegal, a group of lawyers defending the expelled newspaper editor argues.
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The court says the trawler “Remøy” was catching shrimps in Russian waters without necessary permits.
Finnish Border Guard reports a 1% slip in traffic between Murmansk region and Lapland in second quarter.
«Of course, this is also a show of force to Norway, Germany, Sweden, Poland and some other countries,» says Russian commentator.
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Locals say they saw flames and smoke as a major bubble of methane blasted below the surface and created another sinkhole in the Russian Arctic peninsula.
It will look at possible economic benefits and be made in cooperation with Norwegian transport authorities, says Finnish Transport and Communications Minister Anne Berner.
The country’s Ministry of Economic Development wanted 209 billion rubles (€3.1 billion) for the new national Arctic Program. It might get only 12 billion (€177 million).
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Nuclear safety expert Nils Bøhmer says the reactors on board the Typhoon submarine now sailing along the coast of Norway towards St. Petersburg are of 40 years old design.
Two of the world’s biggest nuclear-powered Navy vessels — battle cruiser «Pyotr Veliky» and Typhoon-class sub «Dmitry Donskoy», on Monday left Severomorsk. Next stop is St.Petersburg.
The country’s government wants to make the untouched areas of the Taymyr Peninsula a new and exclusive destination.
Finnish authorities say illegal fishing has not increased in Northern Lapland this summer, at least so far.
On June 15, during the live call-in with Vladimir Putin, oncology patient Darya Starikova complained to Vladimir Putin about the absence of doctors of narrow specialization and the unfinished polyclinic in Apatity, the town in the Kola Peninsula. The call set regional health authorities in motion.
Two individuals had made it through the Russian security fence when they were halted by border guards.
Another ten shiploads will soon be heading to Russia’s Arctic port of Sabetta and then sent thousands of kilometres up great river Ob for delivery near the border to Kazakhstan.
Twenty million tons of crude oil has been shipped out of the Russian Arctic in the last six months, shipping major Sovcomflot announces. The company says its new Arctic tankers will be run by gas.
PHOTOS
"KV Harstad" crew. Photo: Atle Staalesen
"KV Harstad" crew. Photo: Atle Staalesen
KA-27 in the Barents sky. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Il-38 in the sky over "Nikolay Chiker". Photo: Atle Staalesen
The "Striborg". Photo: Atle Staalesen
Training SAR with "KV Harstad". Photo: Atle Staalesen
The "Reidar von Koss" and the "Murmanryba". Photo: Atle Staalesen
Oil booms at "KV Harstad". Photo: Atle Staalesen
"KV Harstad" crew members. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Oil booms at "KV Harstad". Photo: Atle Staalesen
The "Nikolay Chiker". Photo: Atle Staalesen
The "KV Farm". Photo: Atle Staalesen
Justice Minister Per-Willy Amundsen and Police Officer Mathilde Torp inside the passport control zone at Storskog. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Undersized and cramped working conditions indoor at Storskog. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Minister Per-Willy Amundsen with the Norwegian (yellow) and Russian (red-green) border gates in the background. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Justice Minister Per-Willy Amundsen and Finnmark Chief of Police Ellen Katrine Hætta at the newly erected steel fence on the Norwegian side of the borderline. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Minister Amundsen sees the need for new facilities at the border checkpoint. Here together with Finnmark Chief of Police Ellen Katrine Hætta and the delegation from the ministry. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
During the refugee crisis in 2015, migrants had to line up outdoor in the cold before being registered by migration officials. Photo. Thomas Nilsen
Migrants had to wait in tents outdoor during the migrant flow in 2015 at Storskog. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
On Saturdays, many Russians enter Norway for shopping. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Esrange is located 200 km north of the Arctic Circle and surrounded by a vast wilderness perfect for launching of rockets. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Esrange was built in 1964 by ESRO, the European Space Research Organisation, which later became European Space Agency. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The first rocket launch from Esrange occurred on 19 November 1966. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
ESRANGE is an abbreviation for ESRO Sounding Rocket Launching Range. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Both rockets and high altitude balloons are launched from Esrange. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Towards the launch platform. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Esrange rocket platform. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Control room for rocket launches. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Entrance to Esrange Space Centre in Northern Sweden. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Kiruna is the nearest town to the Easrange Space Centre. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Not every Sámi opposes the new Teno River Fishery Agreement.
A group of local protesters and activists does not accept that the states try to control fishing and the management of fisheries in the River Teno (Tana). They are now collecting signatures for their declaration.
Employees of libraries in Arkhangelsk have reportedly been ordered to remove all books marked by the seal of the Soros Foundation from their shelves.
The Finnish Sámi Parliament has authorized its Executive Board to work for a truth and reconciliation process. Tuomas Aslak Juuso, the Second Vice-Chair of the Sámi Parliament says that the next step is to discuss the mandate of such a commission with the Government.
There is quite some strangeness to the dismissal of the Murmansk Minister of Natural Resources and her criminal case under Article 285
The «Vsevolod Vorobyov» will aid bigger Navy vessels and take part in exploration of the Arctic shelf.
The newspapers and brochures never made it to the street of the Arctic city, as local police says it contains signs of extremism.
Business tycoon Maksim Vorobyov and his Russian Aquaculture acquires Villa Smolt AS, a Norwegian company with license to produce an annual 5 million young salmon and trout fish.
The Kola Eco Centre fights for survival, pleads for help to pay the bill.
The company which is accused of illegal shrimp fishing in Russian waters could bankrupt if it loses the case against the Russian Coast Guard.
The country’s Ministry of Economic Development wanted 209 billion rubles (€3.1 billion) for the new national Arctic Program. It might get only 12 billion (€177 million).
It will look at possible economic benefits and be made in cooperation with Norwegian transport authorities, says Finnish Transport and Communications Minister Anne Berner.
The Kayak well in the Barents Sea is believed to hold up to 50 million barrels. The discovery can possibly be connected to the development of the nearby Johan Castberg field.
Locals say they saw flames and smoke as a major bubble of methane blasted below the surface and created another sinkhole in the Russian Arctic peninsula.
In a show of strength, 11 vessels from 10 allied countries unfold a large-scale exercise in the North Atlantic.
And it will happen in the course of the next ten years.
The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service has made a decision in the case brought against the Murmansk electricity company (Murmanenergosbyt)
A top brass of Russian and Norwegian politicians, diplomats and experts cheered and waved as the «Rossita» nuclear waste transportation ship set out to sea with its first shipment of carefully packed spent nuclear fuel. But in the air was also a chill of anxiety about what possibly could go wrong as the tons of deadly load is removed from site.
Barents Must-Reads
Andreeva Bay cleanup:
Nadezhda Kutepova was forced to flee Russia after fighting for the rights of the residents in radioactive contaminated villages near Mayak, the site where all spent nuclear fuel from Andreeva Bay will be sent.
Russia rearms strategic forces:
The reverse gear seems to hang up for continuing disarmament of nuclear weapons in the Arctic. Barents Observer has made a comprehensive review of satellite images from naval base-level storage facilities that confirms heavy construction works.
Leader of the regional party office in Murmansk, Andrey Kapitonov, was recruited by Russian agents as part of a plot involving liberal Parnas and the Norwegian secret police. Then it all backfired on the Russian security service.
Long Read: Sailing Arctic frontiers
It‘s a paradox, but global warming opens more Arctic waters for vessels with tourists who want to see the sea ice before it vanish. Russia's Franz Josef Land sails up as the new highlight destination.
Norwegian businessman Atle Berge invested heavily in Murmansk and made great success. Not everyone liked that.
Brussels releases energy strategy, boosting efficiency target to meet its Paris climate commitments.