Trude Pettersen

In order to enhance control over Arctic air space, Russia has set up an air force and air defense forces within the Northern Fleet.
February 01, 2016
Soldiers from the Northern Fleet’s Arctic Brigade have for the first time learned how to use traditional means of transportation of the indigenous peoples of the North – reindeer and dog sledding.
February 01, 2016
Russia is one of the countries that have received the highest numbers of people that Norway has rejected giving asylum to.
January 29, 2016
Russia's Nevsky Shipyard has delivered the fourth and final vessel in a series of icebreaking rescuers.
January 29, 2016
As Finnish and Russian authorities are discussing how to curb the flow of asylum seekers across their common border, the number of people entering Finnish Lapland from Murmansk Oblast is reaching new records.
January 28, 2016
An organization supporting indigenous peoples in Russia’s northern regions has been fined 300,000 rubles for failing to register as foreign agent.
January 28, 2016
As inflation reached new heights last year, Russians saw their real wages decline by 9.5 percent compared to 2014.
January 27, 2016
Norway´s Coast Guard vessels are still waiting for their new NH-90 helicopters, fifteen years after they were ordered. The vessels have been sailing without helicopters for more than a year.
January 27, 2016
Regular military relations between Norway and Russia have been halted for nearly two years, but the two countries’ Coast Guard Services continue to cooperate on protection of borders and resources in the Barents Sea.
January 26, 2016
Russia will not accept the return of migrants who have travelled from Russia to Norway because they might have given false information, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.
January 26, 2016

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