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Population in northwest Russia continues to slide

3 April 2019 14 h 16 min Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Apatity, depopulation, Kola Peninsula, Monchegorsk, Murmansk

There are now less than three quarter of a million people living on the Kola Peninsula. By beginning of 2019,

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Arctic-based Russian NGO labeled «foreign agent» by Moscow

24 April 2017 14 h 27 min Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Apatity, environment, Kola Eco Centre, Naturvernforbundet, Norway

Kola Eco Center in the town of Apatity is the latest non-governmental organization (NGO) to be stigmatized as «foreign agents» by

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