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A dubious record: About three times as many drunk drivers (per capita) are stopped in Norway’s northernmost Finnmark police district as in Oslo.

The regional government in Murmansk is starting an investigation after a several meter high 2WW memorial in Liinakhamari on the Barents Sea coast was knocked to the ground.

But the opposition accuses the government-loyal party of fraud.

Astrid Nærum is the eleventh Consul General since Norway opened the diplomatic mission to Murmansk in 1993, but she is the first woman in the position.

Yuri Trutnev tests positive following a visit to Chechnya.

Nikolay Palchenko was sitting next to a coughing fellow passenger on the plane from Moscow to Murmansk. A few days later, also Nikolay got sick and ended up at the infectious diseases department at the regional hospital from where he made this photo-report.

As China’s activity ramps up in the North, Nordic countries should aim to develop a common approach to the Asian superpower’s increased involvement in the Arctic, says a recent report.

The small and oil-rich Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the only region in Russia that voted against Putin's constitutional reform.

Supplies are running short, but the researchers working in Russia's many remote Arctic meteorological bases will have to wait as a coronavirus outbreak complicates deliveries.

About 550,000 reindeer are to be made immune against anthrax.

Gällivare is now as bad as Stockholm in regards to COVID-19 infections.