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Interview – Finland’s Senior Arctic Official looks back at two years of Finnish Arctic Council chairmanship

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 13:40 — Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 13:46
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Finland completes its two-year Chairmanship of the Arctic Council on Tuesday, May 7th. Eye on the Arctic blogger Heather Exner-Pirot

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Blog – What to expect from the 2019 Arctic Council Ministerial

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 12:55 — Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 13:04
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The Arctic Council is a collegial and sober organization, that likes to stay above the fray of geopolitical tussling. But

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Russian court sentences Norwegian ex-border inspector to 14 years for espionage

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 10:45 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 12:18
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Frode Berg, a former border inspector from Kirkenes, Arctic Norway, does not appeal the sentence delivered by the Moscow City

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Arctic Council: Officials struggle to find climate language that U.S. can support

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019 at 10:43 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 12:16
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Senior diplomats from the eight Arctic Council countries meeting in Finland late last week struggled to come up with language

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Finnish, Russian presidents to meet at Arctic Forum next week

Yle News
Posted: Monday, April 1, 2019 at 11:50
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Finnish President Sauli Niinistö plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg next week, as he attends the

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Russia, Norway talk Arctic GPS jamming in Oslo

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2019 at 10:38
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Norway and Russia agree to look at the establishment of a new military communications channel. “We recognise Russia’s right to

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Russia, Norway find common ground on Barents fish

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 15, 2019 at 15:33
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We consider the interaction between our countries on regulation of joint fish stocks an example for all other coastal states,

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Finnish president Niinistö to attend Arctic Forum in Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 1, 2019 at 09:57
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The President was hoping to host an Arctic Summit in Finnish Lapland this winter, but will instead travel to Vladimir

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Norwegian PM, FM to travel to Russia for Arctic Forum

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 14:27
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Norway’s Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide says both herself and Prime Minister Erna Solberg will participate at Russia’s Arctic Forum

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Northern Canadian territory puts trade mission to China on hold amid diplomatic tensions

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 15, 2019 at 10:11
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The ongoing diplomatic dispute between Canada and China following the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive has caused the

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Norway irked by Russia’s GPS jamming near Arctic border

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 at 11:40
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Military forces on the heavily militarized Kola Peninsula, in northwest Russia, have blinded GPS signals in Norwegian air space five

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Norwegian, Russian foreign ministers find common ground on northern issues at Italy meeting

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 10:43 — Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 10:46
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Søreide had bilateral talks in Milan on Thursday, but

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Finland summons Russian ambassador over GPS jamming

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 19, 2018 at 10:39
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Russian Ambassador to Helsinki, Pavel Kuznetsov, was set to meet in Finland’s Foreign Ministry on Monday. Norway and Finland have

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Iceland’s president admits he went ‘too far’ with threat to ban pineapple pizza

CBC Radio
Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 16:03
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Nearly two years after the president of Iceland drew Canada’s ire with his disparaging comments about pineapple pizza, Gudni Johannesson

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Finnish Foreign Minister to meet with U.S. Secretary of State in Washington

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 10:30
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Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini heads to Washington this week for talks with his US opposite number, Secretary of State