"The Russian intelligence has the north of Norway as the primal sphere of interest," says Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv after 15 diplomates were expelled from Oslo last week.
There are mixed feelings in northernmost Finland on the country’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. But people agree that Putin’s war changed everything.
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.
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.