Vladimir Uiba regularly appears in public with the insignia of the paramilitary group on his jacket. The Komi leader might have been connected with Wagner and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin for several years.
The Migration Service intends to update information about Russia, Helsingin Sanomat reports with reference to the official representative of the service.
An appeal court judgment dismisses the ruling by the district court in Tromsø to release Andrey Yakunin. The Russian, British businessman whose father is a Putin ally remains in arrest until November 29.
The son of ex-Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin admits he flew a drone at Svalbard but for the public to know the purposes, he now shares insights from the expedition to the Barents Observer.
Political leaders in Kirkenes criticize the local Head of Police following her call to close north Norwegian seaports for Russian fishing boats. Norway must not have an 'isolationist policy' towards Russia, they argue in a joint statement.
Police in Finnmark on Monday arrested 47-year-old Andrey Yakunin in Hammerfest, accused of flying a drone at Svalbard and possibly at other locations in Norway. This is the fourth time in a week that police makes an arrest on suspicion of illegally flying drones or photographing classified objects north in Norway.
“We are strengthening facilities for the reception of, and training with, allied forces in northern Norway,” says Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram as he presented the 2023 budget at the Army’s border guard camp on the border with Russia.
They are friendship towns, but when the priests from the Russian Orthodox Church wanted to learn more about the drinking water facilities, the Mayor of Kirkenes had to put a stop to it.
Recent satellite images show that Russia has deployed four Tu-160 and three Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers north to the Olenegorsk air base on the Kola Peninsula.
"All of Yamal is with you," the governor of the far northern Russian region proclaimed as he wished his drafted countrymen farewell. Meanwhile, an indigenous peoples organisation in exile calls on all Russian northerners to sabotage the mobilisation.
"The incident in the Baltic Sea gives reason to maintain and strengthen measures to protect the petroleum industry," says Tone Vangen, Director of Norway's Police Directorate’s Emergency Preparedness.
Finland will host the defence ministers of Norway and Sweden on Thursday to talk about the “changing security environment” facing the Nordic countries.
The special maneuver happened amid the Northern Fleet’s Barents Arctic exercise and shows how Russia can move highly potent missiles from the Baltic Sea to the North without sailing around NATO-controlled Scandinavia.
The flags of Moscow’s two puppet regions, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, waived in the air as locals from the Pechenga district gathered for the opening of a monument honoring war and bravery in Ukraine.
While Norwegian officials are reluctant to give details, the British Royal Navy now tells how they shadowed the two Russian Northern Fleet submarines "Vepr" and "Severodvinsk" as they made their underwater journey south along the coast of Norway from the Arctic.
The "Severodvinsk" sailed Danish waters Tuesday morning en route from the Kola Peninsula to St. Petersburg where the submarine will be on display at the Naval Parade.
Russia has lost soldiers from the Northern Fleet’s 140th special purpose detachment in Vidyaevo after the group was hit by Ukrainian defenders in the Kharkiv region.
Four passenger aircraft have over the last few days lost GPS signals when flying in Norway’s northeastern region. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, jamming has been registered more than 20 days.
The Russian warship has been followed by Norway’s Armed Forces on its voyages southbound from the Barents Sea to the North Sea where it is west of Stavanger Tuesday evening.
25 year old sportsman Ivan Fedotov was born in Finland and has a Finnish passport, but that did not prevent the Russian Military Commissariat from detaining him and sending him towards a garrison in the Russian North.
A new ad-hoc battalion currently training in the Pechenga valley near Russia's border with Norway consists of reservists, volunteers, soldiers from coastal defense units, military policemen and navy crew members.