Elizaveta Vereykina

"You protect our freedom," King Harald tells soldiers guarding border to Russia

The Norwegian Head of State pays visit to Sør-Varanger Garrison, the military base located only few kilometres from the warring country.
March 14, 2023

On Norway’s Arctic border with Russia, saving refugee lives in extreme cold bigger worry than military invasion

Frontier guard Lars Erik Gausen is well aware that Russian soldiers are training warfare a few kilometers east of the Pasvik River ahead of being sent to Putin’s bloody onslaught on Ukraine. His biggest everyday worry, however, is not a military attack on Norway, but fleeing border crossers in struggle to survive the rugged Arctic wilderness.
February 24, 2023

“Let the whole world know that there are people like my daughter.” Snitches and a sledgehammer: the case of Olesya Krivtsova

A 20-year-old student from Arkhangelsk faces 10 years in prison for anti-war posts. She has been reported to the police by a criminal who dreams of killing gays.
February 23, 2023
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