Someone deliberately short-circuited the system, the regional government says. Explosive flashes of light on Tuesday night flared throught the city downtown.
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg invites all her Nordic colleagues to Tromsø next January. Russia’s Foreign Minister might be in town at the same time.
Like the eruption from Eyjafjallajökull shocked air-traffic across Europe in 2010, Iceland today experiences a political earthquake where the Pirate Party is on course for historic election win.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, emphasised her country’s historic and ongoing connections with the High North in the first keynote speech at the 4th Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík on 7th October 2016. Scotland is determined to deepen and strengthen these ties, according to Sturgeon.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges governments to ensure that Indigenous Peoples' rights and contributions remain central when ways to fight climate changes are discussed.
While neighboring Arctic regions experience massive population decline, the Yamal Nenets has been through a five-fold demographic increase in less than half a century. «It is unprecedented», says regional Governor Dmitry Kobylkin.