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Meanwhile, other nearby towns are experiencing outbreaks of the COVID-19.

Over the past year, a working group at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has been examining the future of commercial reindeer herding in Finland, including the issue of how many domesticated reindeer there should be in the whole of the country.

The team of indigenous players from the North will travel to one of the most tense hotspots in Europe to meet breakaway rebels from Luhansk.

There are now less than three quarter of a million people living on the Kola Peninsula.

In times of global warming, policy measures with tax exemptions makes Norway the third largest market for electric vehicles in the world, after China and the United States.

From May on, the inhabitants of Aanaar, Ohcejohka and Eanodat will be able to fish in the non-private waters of their municipality with one fishing permit for the whole fishing period.

The war against the importation of Moscow garbage in the Arkhangelsk region and the Komi Republic is heating up.

After seven years as leader of Russia’s most powerful Arctic region, Marina Kovtun is replaced by a 40-year old top official from Moscow.

The District Court of Lapland has acquitted all the defendants in the case that dealt with fishing in the river system of Tana.

Approximately 70 percent of Sámi film-makers are women, says Anne Lajla Utsi, the director of the International Sámi Film Institute in Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi. 

At the Utsjoki Court, five Sámi have been accused of fishing offences. They base their fishing on their right to practice Sámi culture – a right pursuant to the constitution of Finland.