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Behind the new center stands the region's controversial church leader Metropolitan Mitrofan.

Russia’s war aggression isolates the country’s largest Arctic city. Previously, the Nordic cities Luleå, Rovaniemi and Tromsø have all terminated sister cities agreements. Today, Murmansk itself decided to cut ties with Akureyri.

The 47-year-old British-Russian citizen charged for flying a drone at Svalbard walked out as a free man Wednesday evening.

Following his engagement in the mobilisation of military reservists in the Murmansk region, war ally Andrei Chibis is put on London’s sanction list.

Mobilised men from the far northern Russian border town say they are abandoned along the frontline in Ukraine without food and equipment.

A downtown support concert for the so-called referendums in Ukraine assembled only a few handfuls of people. At the same time, regional authorities frenetically seek to draft men for the bloody war.

Putin’s war call-up makes Russians living abroad and those with dual citizenship think twice about crossing the border for visiting friends and near relatives.

Behind the apparently comfortable win of Putin's party of power in this weekend's regional elections is a growing sense of voter resentment. The actual support of the current rulers is "catastrophically low," a local opposition candidate from the Kola Peninsula says after the United Russia Party won 44 of 45 regional mandates.

Pilot project in transporting live crab from the Barents Sea to Moscow by road has been successfully completed.

Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt says the sanctions are "a necessary response to Russia's brutal and unprovoked attack on Ukraine."

When the diplomats woke up in the morning on July 4th, both of the Norwegian Consulate General’s CD-plated cars were tagged with ‘Z’ stickers on the back.