Thomas Nilsen

Europe’s green transition pushes for more mines to open. Test drilling in what is believed to be an exceptionally rich copper and nickel deposit in northern Finland, however, was Tuesday morning stopped by environmentalists.
December 12, 2023
Pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia estimates that 40% of the young men who ran abroad after Putin’s partial mobilization in September 2022 have returned. Other sources suggest the numbers are even less.
December 12, 2023
Putin on Monday attended the flag-raising ceremony for the two nuclear-powered submarines Krasnoyarsk and Imperator Aleksandr III at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk.
December 11, 2023
Visitors might soon have to sign a consent forbidding them from expressing anything anti-Russia.
November 29, 2023
A solemn ceremony was held for the K-564 Yasen-M class multi-purpose submarine at the Sevmash shipyard in the north Russian city of Severodvinsk on November 29.
November 29, 2023
The Finnish Government on Tuesday decided to close the entire border with Russia for two weeks.
November 28, 2023
Migrants are now being sent back from the Murmansk region. Pressure on the Finnish border is less dramatic.
November 28, 2023
Norway's Telenor on Tuesday puts power to mobile phone coverage for Ny-Ålesund north on Svalbard.
November 27, 2023
Despite hundreds of migrants queuing up in the Murmansk region with a strong will to make it to Europe, Norwegian police authorities are unwilling to send a helicopter north for surveillance along the remote wilderness border in polar night and freezing cold.
November 24, 2023
All checkpoints to Russia, except the northernmost, will temporarily be closed from Thursday evening Prime Minister Petteri Orpo announced at a press conference in Helsinki.
November 22, 2023

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