Russian influence ops seek to fuel discord between Arctic Norway and Oslo, Norwegian intelligence service says
Kremlin seeks to exploit any issue that can create split, said Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde when presenting the Intelligence
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Equinor drops plan for oil transfer terminal at Veidnes in northern Norway
This Arctic beauty spot will remain exactly that; a beauty spot. The costs of constructing an oil terminal at Veidnes
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Time to end Western sanctions against Russia, Arctic Norwegian leader says
It’s time for Norway to abolish sanctions against Russia and instead introduce similar measures against the USA, Finnmark County Council
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Arctic Norway: Russian FM to attend ceremony commemorating Soviet liberation in WWII
October 25th marks the Soviet Red Army troops’ liberation of Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to be freed from
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Population declining in Arctic Norway
Shrinking population also in cities like Tromsø, Harstad and Mo i Rana during first half of 2019. Population is down
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Russia deploys missile system in range of Norway’s Arctic radars
Exercise shooting with the missiles designed to take out surface targets at a distance of up to 150 kilometres will
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Electric car sales skyrocket in Arctic Norway
Sales rose 140% in the first half 2019 in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, compared to the same period last year.
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Small traces of radioactive Cobalt-60 detected along Norway-Russia border
“The levels measured are very, very low and we don’t know its origin,” says Bredo Møller with Norway’s radiation agency’s
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Arctic Norway to get advanced EV charging network
17 high-power 150 kW chargers and eight fast chargers will make it possible for practically all kinds of electric cars
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Norway rearming in Arctic to face new security landscape
The army is well underway with establishing a new Cavalry Battalion, Home Guard and a Ranger Company in Norway’s northernmost
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Minister downplays environmental impact of planned mine in Arctic Norway
Dumping of tailings into the Repparfjord on Norway’s Barents Sea coast will not be problematic in such a way that
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Beijing finds a Chinatown in Arctic Norway
The Asian superpower looks towards the Arctic and finds a home in this year’s Barents Spektakel winter festival in Kirkenes,
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GPS jamming hindering construction work in Arctic Norway
Repeated disturbances of satellite navigation signals now trouble road workers in Kirkenes, Arctic Norway. “It’s like being blind without notice,
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Murmansk-Norway border traffic suffers major drop
Russian New Year celebrations, which run until mid-January, are normally a busy time for cross-border shopping. Not so this year.
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Norway irked by Russia’s GPS jamming near Arctic border
Military forces on the heavily militarized Kola Peninsula, in northwest Russia, have blinded GPS signals in Norwegian air space five
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