Norway to press Russia for action on Arctic smelter pollution
“It is Russia’s responsibility to reduce the emission,” says Ola Elvestuen, Norway’s Minister of Climate and the Environment. Last Friday,
Read more“It is Russia’s responsibility to reduce the emission,” says Ola Elvestuen, Norway’s Minister of Climate and the Environment. Last Friday,
Read moreCecilie Hansen, former Mayor of Kirkenes in Arctic Norway, says the plant in Nikel, northwest Russia, should be forced to
Read moreWe Sámi people manage the life cycles of natural resources and produce little or no wastes, that is what I
Read moreMilitary forces on the heavily militarized Kola Peninsula, in northwest Russia, have blinded GPS signals in Norwegian air space five
Read moreRussia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Søreide had bilateral talks in Milan on Thursday, but
Read moreSitting on the rocky coastline of the slate gray Barents Sea, the hilly city of Kirkenes, Norway is located at
Read moreOctober 2019 will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Norway’s northernmost region from Nazi occupation by the Red
Read more Russian, Norwegian, Sámi and Finnish LGBT communities met in Kirkenes, Arctic Norway for the second year in a row
Read more“Norwegian authorities are again considering the use of nuclear weapons against Norway or close to Norway as a not unthinkable
Read moreNorwegians, especially the youngsters, move south. Foreign citizens though, have more than doubled the last ten years. Vadsø, Honningsvåg and
Read more“There is a need for a civilian shipyard in the Murmansk area”, says Director of Kimek, the yard in Kirkenes
Read moreOne Norwegian krone was traded at 8,1 rubles Tuesday morning. Cross-border traffic between Murmansk (Arctic Russia) and Kirkenes (Arctic Norway)
Read moreOn a gray June day, a group of thirty-odd Arctic scholars and artists participating in a traveling symposium called the
Read moreThe number of people crossing the Norwegian-Russian border is shrinking. But some people, like Aleksandr, will continue to travel between
Read moreAmidst recent plans to explore a proposed Arctic Railway that would run from Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland to the Norwegian
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