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Norway’s oil minister: “We need new discoveries”

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 08:43
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Despite warnings about climate catastrophe, the Norwegian government prepares the ground for a significant expansion of oil and gas exploration

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Norway hesitates on granting asylum to Russians fleeing army draft

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 09:20
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Russian citizens applying for asylum in Norway was up from 13 in 2021 to 294 in 2022. Should Norway shelter

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Finnish Border Guard deploys surveillance drones, Norway not

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 08:51
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The border guard is one of few army units in Norway not in possession of drones. With the mid-winter icy escape

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Police in Arctic Norway say helicopter now needed for border surveillance

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 08:53
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A former commander with the Kremlin-linked Wagner private military company fled across the border to Norway in dramatic circumstances last

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Russia summons Norwegian ambassador over drone pilots

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2022 at 11:39
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Robert Kvile, Oslo’s new ambassador to Moscow, was told Monday by Russia’s foreign ministry that charges against Russian citizens for

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Army, Navy and Air Force start exercises in northern Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 10:58
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Volume of military exercise is on the rise in Northern Norway. This week is especially busy in the air, on

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Norwegian military watchtower got electricity from Russian hydro-power plant—then it was cut

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 09:04
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The military watchtower is manned round-the-clock guarding Norway’s land border with Russia. This June, Russia decided to cut the electricity

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Norway ups climate ambitions…and boosts its fossil fuels

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 7, 2022 at 11:34
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Ahead of COP27 climate talks in Egypt, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre makes clear that national emissions will be cut

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U.S aircraft flew Norwegian airspace on mission outside Russia’s nuclear sub bases

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 15:57
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Norway’s reassurance policy towards Russia has for the most followed a practice that allied intelligence missions to airspace outside the

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Suspected Arctic spy researcher José (37) is GRU-linked Mikhail (44)

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2022 at 15:37
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Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) har charged Mikhail Mikushin with gathering illegal intelligence while working under fake identity at UiT

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Tromso terminates friendship agreements with Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Nadym

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 08:37
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Mayor Wilhelmsen, together with politicians from other parties in northern Norway’s largest city, announced in a letter published in Nordlys that a

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Hybrid threat researcher detained in Tromsø on suspicion of being Russian agent

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 12:01
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Norwegian police believe the man, who says he is Brazilian, in reality, is an undercover Russian agent. The plot is

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Norwegian police detain son of close Putin ally for flying drone at Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 15:48
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Police in Finnmark on Monday arrested 47-year-old Andrey Yakunin in Hammerfest, accused of flying a drone at Svalbard and possibly

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Four Russians arrested in Norway on suspicion of photographing secret object

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 17, 2022 at 11:25
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For the third time in a week, police in northern Norway have detained Russian citizens for illegal photographing. It was

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Russian drone pilot detained on border to Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, October 14, 2022 at 14:12
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A Russian citizen has been detained on the border crossing point of Storskog after police found two drones in his

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