Olesia Krivtsova

Ella Marie: Oppressed people should resist - I think it's good for the soul

Sámi artist and activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen was one of the artists performing at the Riddu Riđđu festival in Manndalen in northern Norway, which took place July 10-13. The Barents Observer met with her during the festival to talk about what fuels her activism and the key issues she sees facing the Sámi People right now.
July 17, 2024

"We want Riddu Riđđu to be a safe space"

At the ongoing Riddu Riđđu festival in Manndalen in northern Norway, Sami and other Indigenous People are celebrated. This year there is a special focus on Queer Indigenous People of the North.
July 11, 2024

This is how an agent from Murmansk built a network in Northern Norway

Sergei Goncharov and the Russian Geographical Society over several years cultivated a web of partners in neighbouring Norway. Today, he is unwilling to answer questions about covert recruitment of spies and mapping of Russian exiles in Norway.
May 20, 2024

"We will continue to work whatever they call us," assures SOTA editor after declared 'undesirable'

"I consider this label repressive. But I can say for sure that we will continue to work, whatever they call us," says Daria Poryadina, editor of the exile-Russian news outlet SOTA.
May 17, 2024

New commander of North Russian armed forces has waged war in Ukraine and Syria

Three-star General Aleksandr Lapin is appointed head of the Leningrad Military District.
May 16, 2024

Ahead of Putin's meetings with Xi, North Russian Governor Aleksandr Tsybulsky talked Arctic shipping in Chinese port

During his visit to the port city of Dalian, Governor of Arkhangelsk Aleksandr Tsybulsky called on Chinese shippers to set course for the Northern Sea Route.
May 16, 2024

North Russian region of Arkhangelsk spends hundreds of millions on aid to occupiers of Melitopol

A non-profit called the Directorate of Social and Infrastructure Projects is modernizing boiler houses, renovating residential buildings and changing water supply networks in the occupied Ukrainian city. It is all tacitly funded by public money from the Arkhangelsk regional budget.
April 24, 2024

Young men from north Russian navy towns refuse to fight. Many face years in jail for desertion

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the military court in Zaozersk, Kola Peninsula, has filed 76 cases against men that refuse to sign contacts with the Armed Forces.
April 17, 2024

Marina-Viktoria from Murmansk is jailed 3 times for holding a photo of Aleksei Navalny

The photo of the killed opposition leader is 'extremist material,' a court in the north Russian city decided.
March 15, 2024

"Journalists are not criminals," Roman's sign reads, but exactly that's what he was sentenced for

On March 6 a city court in Moscow sentenced RusNews journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in prison for violating the law on fake news about the Russian army.
March 06, 2024

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