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.
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.
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.
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.
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.