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Norwegian editor dies in Lapland gyrocopter crash

The deceased is Morten Ruud (57), editor of Norwegian public radio’s regional broadcaster in Finnmark.

July 22, 2018

Fighting for Násafjäll

Reindeer herding or mining on Násafjäll? The question comes to a head now that the company Elkem AS has applied for expropriation in order to start quarrying for quartz in an area where three Swedish Sámi villages and a Norwegian reindeer-herding district practice reindeer herding.

July 19, 2018

1 in 10 Russians want to emigrate, Julia choose Norway

8,200 Russians have got Norwegian citizenship since the breakup of the Soviet Union, show figures compiled by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration for the Barents Observer.

July 19, 2018

European Parliament Committee wants tougher tone against Norway over Svalbard snow crab conflict

The dispute steps up as the Committee on Fisheries says the European Commission’s diplomatic efforts in tackling the issue with Norwegian authorities have not been resolute enough.

July 16, 2018

Thorvald Stoltenberg, initiator of Barents cooperation, is dead at 87

In 1993, Norway’s then Minister of Foreign Affairs initiated the Barents cooperation in the spirit that prevailed at the end of the Cold War.

July 13, 2018

No fishermen on Europe’s most popular salmon river though all the fishing licences have been sold

The shores of the River Teno (Tana) are usually crowded with fishermen and women in late June, but, according to an entrepreneur from Nuorgam, Finland, there were almost no-one there this summer.

July 12, 2018

Is the governor of Murmansk leader of large-scale organised corruption?

Three of her former aides say that she is.

July 12, 2018

People protest against pension reform: «We are people, not animals!» 

Locals assembled in the streets of Murmansk to protest against the government’s pension reform, writes Blogger51.

July 06, 2018

Sámi villages declare moratorium on mining in the Nása area

The Svaipa, Grans and Semisjaur–Njarg Sámi villages and the Saltfjell Reindeer-Herding District have declared a moratorium on mining in the Nása mountain, a border area between Sweden and Norway. «This is a clear statement from the reindeer-herding villages. The goal is to prevent mining on Násafjäll, both now and in future,» says Sara Ajnnak from the Svaipa Sámi village of reindeer herders.

July 03, 2018

«No breastfeeding behind bars»

How newborn children in Russia serve their sentences in places of detention with their mothers

July 02, 2018

Moscow postpones ministerial business talks with Norway

A long-time planned June meeting with Trade and Industry Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen will have to wait until Russia has decided which minister to send to Oslo.

June 29, 2018

Lapland multiartist Niillas Holmberg hopes to contribute to the health of society through his art

The art of Niillas Holmberg, a poet, musician and actor from Utsjoki, Finland, has become more and more political over the years. This summer, Holmberg publishes his first thoroughly political book of poetry.

June 29, 2018

Finland suspends twenty councillors in Lapland's Levi ski-resort town before trial

Twenty Kittilä councillors have been suspended by central government until the conclusion of their trial on charges of abuse of an official office, workplace safety violations and workplace discrimination.

June 19, 2018

Moscow says it is high time that Norway listens

If not, the good-neighborly relationship will be ruined, the Russian Foreign Ministry threatens.

June 18, 2018

Russia raises retirement age by five to eight years, but still special rules in the north

We live longer, are active longer, and therefore we need to work longer, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev argues as he presents what is a highly controversial law in Russia.

June 18, 2018

Colossal statue coming to island outside Murmansk

No seafarer sailing to the Russian Arctic city will be able to overlook the huge statue of Orthodox Saint Nicolas soon to be erected in the Kola Bay.

June 06, 2018

Medicine for misdiagnosis. The Daria Starikova case

In the Murmansk region, more and more people are dying of cancer. The case of Daria Starikova has not changed anything

June 03, 2018

As Norwegian MPs make first visit to Moscow in seven years, Russian legislators adopt new counter-sanctions bill

The visit was to take place in 2017, but was then cancelled because two members of the Norwegian delegation had ended on a Russian sanction list.

June 01, 2018

Russia’s new Arctic governor is 30 years old and has a MBA from Singapore

Dmitry Artyukhov was this week appointed acting Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

May 30, 2018

Hard to pass down oral traditions as a vast majority of the Finnish Sámi youth live outside the Sámi region

There is concern in northern Finland about how to transfer the Sámi cultural heritage to younger generations.

May 30, 2018

Oleg Sentsov on hunger strike in Yamal prison

The Ukrainian film director, who serves a 20-year sentence in the remote Russian Arctic town of Labytnangi, demands the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.

May 28, 2018

Political drama in Russian Arctic Navy base

The town, which houses some of the most powerful submarines of the Northern Fleet, is theater for a intriguing political game between supporters and opponents of a dismissed municipal mayor.

May 25, 2018

Tax revenues shrinking in Murmansk

The overall volume of tax revenues in the Russian Arctic region in the first 3 months of the year decreased by 17 percent compared with last year.

May 21, 2018

Arctic governor gets key post in Russia’s new government

Dmitry Kobylkin has made the Yamal-Nenets Autononous Okrug an economic powerhouse in the Russian North. Now, he will head the country’s Ministry of Natural Resources.