Trude Pettersen

Throughout 2016 the U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship will be looking at the connections that each U.S. state enjoys with the Arctic.
February 25, 2016
Russia is no immediate military threat to Norway, but there is considerable uncertainty connected to the country’s long-term development, the Norwegian Intelligence Service says.
February 24, 2016
German oil and gas company has failed to find hydrocarbons in its Kvalross exploration well in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway.
February 24, 2016
An intentionally triggered avalanche came out of control and hit apartment buildings in the poplar ski resort on the Kola Peninsula.
February 24, 2016
By 2035 Russia will have produced 31-35 million tons of oil on the Arctic shelf, Deputy Minister of Energy Kirill Molodtsov says. This is less than earlier estimates. – A logical reduction, experts say.
February 23, 2016
Sevmash Shipyard will no longer be producing vessels and equipment for the civilian market, but exclusively focus on submarines and naval vessels.
February 22, 2016
Because of the economic situation, the Russian Armed Forces will get a 5% or 160 billion rubles cut in 2016, Vedomosti reports.
February 19, 2016
Combined houses for livestock and people used to be the most common building style along the Varanger Fjord in Finnmark. Two researchers went to Karelia in Russia to track the origins of the style.
February 19, 2016
After having received a reprimand from President Putin, Governor of Karelia Aleksander Khudalainen, dismissed his whole government.
February 18, 2016
Migrants who came to Norway from Russia across the border-crossing point at Storskog last autumn and winter, are now being sent to Moscow and St. Petersburg by plane.
February 18, 2016

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