Blog – Kirkenes: The company town that became a Chinatown for five days
The town of Kirkenes, Norway is a little northern melting pot. It sits at the on the country’s Arctic edge,
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Arctic-based news site launches Chinese-language section
Eye on the Arctic editor’s note: The Independent Barents Observer is part of the Eye on the Arctic circumpolar news partnership.
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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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Railway linking Barents Sea coast to Arctic Finland not commercially viable, report says
Finnish-Norwegian working group says cargo volumes are too small to justify building a railway from Rovaniemi (Arctic Finland) to Kirkenes
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Finland takes another step towards building Arctic rail link
Finnish Government includes Rail Baltica project in infrastructure plan as it invites private investors to participate future development. Finland’s Transport
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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,
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Pollution from northwest Russia shrouds Arctic Norway
Cecilie Hansen, former Mayor of Kirkenes in Arctic Norway, says the plant in Nikel, northwest Russia, should be forced to
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“The ‘Smart Arctic’ is Indigenous,” Saami leader tells Arctic Frontiers
We Sámi people manage the life cycles of natural resources and produce little or no wastes, that is what I
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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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Norwegian, Russian foreign ministers find common ground on northern issues at Italy meeting
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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Blog – When a town in Arctic Norway transforms into “the world’s northernmost Chinatown”
Sitting on the rocky coastline of the slate gray Barents Sea, the hilly city of Kirkenes, Norway is located at
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Norway invites Russia’s Lavrov for 2019 commemoration of Red Army’s liberation of Arctic Finnmark
October 2019 will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Norway’s northernmost region from Nazi occupation by the Red
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Video – Arctic LGBT communities meet in northern Norway for Pride parade
Russian, Norwegian, Sámi and Finnish LGBT communities met in Kirkenes, Arctic Norway for the second year in a row
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Rising nuclear activity in Arctic Europe prompts Norway to update disaster plans
“Norwegian authorities are again considering the use of nuclear weapons against Norway or close to Norway as a not unthinkable
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