Elizaveta Vereykina

Tourism is booming in northern Norway: “It's amazing. We have never seen so many guests before”, tour operators react.

January 04, 2024

Norwegian oil and gas industry expects a rise in investments in 2024

December 13, 2023

Will Russia compensate eco-activists after a court ruling? “It’s a pity it won’t”, the activists react.

December 08, 2023

Mothers and wives of the mobilized soldiers took part in a military-style fashion show in the Yugra region

December 07, 2023

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

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