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Top Russian legislators question Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard

Norway is violating the Svalbard Treaty from 1920, says Deputy Speaker in the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev following the Nordic country's unwillingness to facilitate transportation of Russian goods to the archipelago.
June 29, 2022

“Useless to continue regional diplomatic relations”

“Russia and Norway no longer have anything to talk about,” says Jørgen Holten Jørgensen, former Consul in Murmansk.
June 10, 2022

In front of Finland's Consulate office in Murmansk appears anti-NATO banner with Nazi undertone

The more than two meter wide poster depicts two consulate employees, one of them with a Nazi officer cap and a gunsight against his head.
June 08, 2022

“I hate them. They are bastards and scum. They want death for us, ...”

The tone about the West in Dmitry Medvedev’s latest message on his Telegram channel is shocking and totally opposite to the wording when he visited the Norwegian border town Kirkenes nine years ago.
June 07, 2022

Census results show galloping population drain in Russia's North

The population of Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and other northern regions might be ten percent less that anticipated.
June 03, 2022

On Victory Day, Russian sailors staged anti-western rampage in Norwegian border town

Few hours after Russia's General Consul in Kirkenes delivered a 9th of May speech where he warned against the rise of Nazism in Europe, a group of Russian sailors desecrated U.S and German flags in the local seaport.
June 02, 2022

The Prime Minister that delimited the border to Russia is back in the borderland

12 years after he was instrumental in delineating a disputed area in the Barents Sea, Jonas Gahr Støre still has hope for cross-border cooperation.
May 13, 2022

Bordertown unwilling to invite Ukrainian Ambassador to attend Liberation Day

"We proposed to invite the Ambassador in solidarity with the suffering people of Ukraine, but the Mayor said no," says Harald Sunde, Municipal Councilman in Kirkenes on Norway’s border with Russia.
May 08, 2022

Moscow expels Nordic diplomats

The day after the Russian Foreign Ministry's announcement to expel three Swedish diplomats, the Norwegians were given the same message.
April 27, 2022

Students, employees urge Arkhangelsk rector to withdraw war-support

Strong-worded letter expresses a real fear of Russians being deprived of basic civil rights and that the country will enter a long period of isolation behind a new Iron Curtain.
April 25, 2022

Four top Russian company leaders found dead in three months

Sergei Protosenya, his wife and daughter were on the 19st of April found dead in the Spanish resort of Lloret de Mar. The former top leader of Novatek is the fourth suspicious death in the Russian energy sector since the start of 2022.
April 25, 2022

Hanne is Norway's new Consul General to Murmansk

"The Norwegian Consulate in Murmansk will continue to work for mutual cooperation, but the circumstances will decide details and outcome of those efforts," says Hanne Meldgaard.
April 23, 2022

Russia's former top Arctic official is arrested

Aleksandr Krutikov is accused of having "exceeded his powers" in the Ministry of the Far East and Arctic.
April 20, 2022

On Russia's remotest Arctic coasts resounds a heil for Putin's war

Villagers in Taymyr form a "Z" with their snowmobiles and indigenous dancers from Chukotka make a patriotic performance to honour the President.
April 19, 2022

Community at Siberian university strongly condemns war in Ukraine

A community of students, graduates, teachers and other employees of Novosibirsk State University has published a sensational statement calling for the Russian army to immediately stop the war and leave Ukraine.
April 18, 2022

The Murmansk Palace of Culture is wrapped in Putin’s Nazi-inspired war symbol

It is supposed to stage fine pieces of Russian art. But the cultural institution in the far northern city now first of all displays support to barbarian war.
April 10, 2022

In Russia's North, locals are starting to feel the new war economy

Prices on key commodities are surging and millions more Russians face poverty.
April 07, 2022

Murmansk population down by 8,700

Regional authorities in 2019 presented a great plan on how to boost the population. Since then, Murmansk Oblast has seen a dramatic decline of 3,16%.
April 05, 2022

War protesting Sámi activist from Kola seeks asylum in Norway

“I can never return to Russia before the genocide regime is changed,” says Andrei Danilov, a Kildin Sámi from Olenegorsk on the Kola Peninsula.
April 04, 2022

"Liberating Ukraine from nationalist dirt is our historical duty," says Arctic University rector Elena Kudryashova

The rector who for more than a decade has built international research and educational cooperation between Arkhangelsk and universities in Tromsø, Umeå, Rovaniemi and Oulu now publicly voices a pro-war mood.
April 03, 2022

Like thousands of others in the Russian North, the new City Mayor of Murmansk comes from Ukraine

Igor Morar is elected new Head of Russia's Arctic capital. He is born in the Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
April 01, 2022

In Murmansk support rally, people came, checked in, and left

"History is being made in front of our very eyes," the Putin appointed governor Andrey Chibis said to the crowd gathered downtown Murmansk on the eight-year anniversary of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.
March 19, 2022

With a "Z" on his chest, the Governor of Murmansk views across border to Nordic neighbors

Andrei Chibis had put on a shirt with Russia's war-symbol when he this weekend paid a visit to the Pechenga region.
March 14, 2022

Russians who sign petitions against war are losing their jobs

March 10, 2022

Oslo names street by Russian Embassy 'Ukraine Square'

But the north Norwegian border town of Kirkenes does not want to give a new name to the square near its local Russian general consulate.
March 08, 2022

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