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- At end-stops, batteries are charged via the plugin device on the roof. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- From the Umeå Airport you can drive by electric bus or take an electric taxi. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Electric airport express bus. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Umeå is by many called the "city of birches". Green city - clean buses. The batteries are charged with energy from renewable sources. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- In Umeå there are even articulated buses with batteries Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- "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
- Reinertsen facilities with workshops and port is located on the west side of the Kola Bay in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Reinertsen port in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Workshop at Reinertsen Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Worker at Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Worker at Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Construction workshop at Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Workers at Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Workshop at Reinertsen in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- E105 connects Kirkenes and Murmansk, the only road between Norway and Russia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Upgrade on the last few kilometers on E105 between Salmijervi and Borisoglebsk on the Russian side of the border was completed in the autumn 2016. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- The new bridge in Pechenga opened in September 2013. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Asphalt paving on the road across the Kola Peninsula towards Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- E105 meets E6 at Hesseng on the Norwegian side of the border. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Storskog, the Norwegian border checkpoint. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Borisoglebsk, the Russian border checkpoint. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Lining up for family photo at Norway's border to Russia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- The Parliamentarians got a brief about the border crossing regime indoor at the Storskog checkpoint. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Here, but no longer. NATO Parliamentarians could walk all the way to the borderline between Norway and Russia, but not across. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Norwegian border pole and flag. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Roger Jakobsen is Norwegian Border Commissioner. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Storskog border checkpoint. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Member of the Norwegian Storting, Sverre Myrli, is Vice-President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- NATO Parliamentary Assably visited Jarfjord Border Station which is operated by the Norwegian military border guards who patrols the border to Russia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- The skies are ready for the border guard soldiers who patrols Norway's border to Russia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Snowmobiles are always on standby during winter, ready for the military guards for snap patrols in case of illegal border crossings. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Snowy weather when the NATO Parliamentary Assembly members meet the Mayor of Kirkenes, Rune Rafaelsen. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- A Russian border pole on display outside Pasvik border station. 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
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Nagurskoye Military Complex on Franz Josef Land has its own Orthodox church; the world's northernmost. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense
- Expedition cruise vessel "Island Sky" in the White Sea. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Walrus on an icefloe east of Spitsbergen. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Foreigners on board cruise vessels can now visit ports like here in Arkhangelsk for 72 hours without holding a Russian visa. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- There are close very few people living on the remote islands in the Russian Arctic. Here a small hut on the Vaygach Island. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Murmansk is Russia's largest Arctic city with a growing number of tourists. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Tourist guide Sergey Arzumanov in Murmansk is waiting for more foreign cruise vessels to make port call to the city's brand new pier. In the background, icebreaker "Lenin". Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Port of Kirkenes with "The World" and Hurtigruten's "Trollfjord". Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Commissioned in 1969, "Explorer" became the first purpose-built expedition vessel for icy waters. Here from the Magdalene fjord on Svalbard. In 2007, she hit an iceberg in Antarctic and sank. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Walrus on an ice floe in the Arctic. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Polar bear on the ice in the Hinlopen Strait. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Polar bear on the ice. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
- Longyearbyen on Svalbard is the turn-around port for many expedition cruises in the European part of the Arctic. Photo: Thomas Nilsen