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"Norwegians will never be allowed to buy services from me. It’s my small answer," says car painter Sergey Gabinet in Zapolyarny, a mining town near Russia's border to Norway.

Pechenga district has 37,500 inhabitants. Only five percent of them have border certificates.

Police has detained several of the protestors that participated in Sunday’s rally in downtown Murmansk.

An independent party campaigning against the closure of hospitals has come first in the county council elections in Norrbotten in the far north of Sweden, ending an age of Social Democrat dominance.

People are taking a stand for nature in Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi, by showing concretely, through red lines, where they draw the line.

18 houses in the village of Alakurtti have been without hot water for about a month

«We are absolutely not not talking about any kind of secession,» says Finnmark County Council leader Ragnhild Vassvik

After 41 years on the force, retiring deputy head of the Lapland Police Department Seppo Kinnunen is worried how his team will cope in the future. He says the large distances and lack of resources in the north already have his unit extremely overextended.

A wide cast net has been spread on the cliff on the Skoltefossen Falls near the mouth of the River Neiden in Norway. The Skolt Sámi have fished with such a cast net, also known as käpälä (“the paw”), on the River Neiden for centuries.

In the Murmansk region, 15 volunteers are trying to put out massive wildfires. And instead of equipment, they are being offered prayer as help.