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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s Arctic city of Kiruna welcomes EU Commission

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 14:36
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All members of the European Commission and the entire Swedish government are in Sweden’s northernmost city Kiruna today for an

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

More Russian Arctic oil via Murmansk redirects to India

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 9, 2022 at 11:24
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The“Surgut” is one of the supertankers loaded with crude oil from Murmansk now sailing past Europe and instead heading to

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Russians facing stricter visa rules for Schengen countries

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2022 at 09:30
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A growing number of Russians are crossing the border to Norway in the north for shopping and transfer to other

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway has adopted EU’s updated sanctions against Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 08:49
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Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt says the sanctions are “a necessary response to Russia’s brutal and unprovoked attack on Ukraine.” The

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

We’re building a ‘Noah’s Ark’ in the Arctic, Rosneft CEO says in speech

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 09:53
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A great Flood is on its way from the West, Igor Sechin warns. He finds salvation in Arctic project Vostok

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

As Moscow prepared for war, Gazprom sold Arctic gas worth almost €140 billion

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 10:17
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The country’s main natural gas producer in 2021 recorded a 13-fold increase in profits. Gazprom has never before had the

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Russia 

Blog: Russia’s Arctic gas is funding the war in Ukraine

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:31 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:35
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the seven other member states of the Arctic Council have hit a “pause”

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Environment Environment (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 News Russia 

EU ready to co-fund removal of sunken nuclear subs from Russian Arctic seabed

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 22, 2021 at 11:35 — Last Updated: Monday, November 22, 2021 at 11:38
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The Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) has decided to start a technical review aimed to find a safe way to

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Blog: The Arctic Circle’s comeback

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 09:05
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Following a hiatus last year due to the global pandemic, and instead shifting to virtual presentations for much of 2020 and after,

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics 

Blog: Red light, green light – The European Union upgrades its Arctic policy

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 15:28
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As the field of Arctic foreign policy continues to expand, the European Union has often found itself being the odd

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway gets new government as voters make a forceful left turn

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 14:44
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A green shift was in the air, but a majority of Norwegians ultimately cast their votes for a center-left coalition

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Finland welcomes fully-vaccinated travellers, but Sputnik V isn’t valid

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 14:12
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From July 26 there are now longer any internal border controls for traffic into Finland from EU- and Schengen countries,

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Parliament building Stockholm, Sweden. (iStock)
* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General Sweden 

Sweden to see new restrictions after EU unveils climate package

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, July 16, 2021 at 09:43
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The Swedish carbon market, forests and bio energy will be affected by the new restrictions from the EU’s “Fit for

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Society Society (Iceland) 

Arctic Circle Assembly to hold in-person conference in October

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, July 9, 2021 at 13:46
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The Arctic Circle Assembly, one of the biggest Arctic conferences in the world, will be holding an in-person event this

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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Nuclear power plant construction in north Finland faces delay, upped costs, geopolitical uncertainties

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 07:57
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Costs for the partly Russian-owned controversial plant will be €1 billion more than previously estimated. “Further deterioration of political and

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