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The reindeer herding cooperatives that graze their reindeer in the old forests of Inari criticize the state-owned forestry company Metsähallitus Metsätalous Oy for not following the logging plans they have agreed on.

But we could end up with an expansion of the road network, argues Esko Lotvonen.

100 years after Russian revolution, busts, monuments and symbols with Vladimir Lenin are still spread across the Barents Region.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk has sentenced Svetlana Makarova to four years behind bars.

Due to budgetary shortfalls, the Lapland Police Department has announced plans to move the police force from the small town of Enontekiö to the larger city of Muonio. The station is set to be shut down early next year, when the officers who work there retire. The plans reflect a recent trend of shuttering some police stations in remote locations across the region.

It fell into the sea off the coast of Barentsburg, Svalbard, with eight people on board.

Governor Marina Kovtun’s former top aide is put behind bars on suspicion of serious fraud.

The merger with neighbouring Troms will not affect our work with the Barents Cooperation, says head of the Finnmark County Ragnhild Vassvik.

As pressure against Murmansk leader Marina Kovtun increases, Deputy Governor Igor Babenko is dismissed from the regional government.

Local communists wanted to erect the monument in the city centre, but the Soviet dictator ended up in a backyard.

Mack, the world’s largest brewery within the Arctic Circle, will deliver half a million liters of beer to government-owned Systembolaget.