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Blog: Moving North – Arctic Frontiers in a changing world

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 10:29 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 12:59
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Tromso is living up to its image as Norway’s Arctic capital, as I step off the plane into a flurry

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Lonely Lavrov invites Arctic colleagues to Siberia, but no one will come

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 09:08
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It was late last fall Sergey Lavrov sent the official invitation for the bi-annual ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council.

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

Norway hesitates on granting asylum to Russians fleeing army draft

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 09:20
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Russian citizens applying for asylum in Norway was up from 13 in 2021 to 294 in 2022. Should Norway shelter

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

Finnish Border Guard deploys surveillance drones, Norway not

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 08:51
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The border guard is one of few army units in Norway not in possession of drones. With the mid-winter icy escape

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General News Russia 

Captains battle thick sea ice in Arctic Russia, despite possible record warmth

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 20, 2023 at 09:25
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Ship captains are battling with major volumes of sea-ice across the Russian far north. But the troubled navigation notwithstanding, temperature

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

Finland closes Murmansk consulate office

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 16:02
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Three decades of Finnish diplomatic presence come to an end in Russia’s largest city inside the Arctic Circle. It has

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

Russian Arctic LNG advances in European market

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 09:17
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While deliveries of pipeline gas are dwindling, shipments of liquified natural gas from Russia’s far northern Yamal Peninsula to Europe

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

Police in Arctic Norway say helicopter now needed for border surveillance

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 08:53
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A former commander with the Kremlin-linked Wagner private military company fled across the border to Norway in dramatic circumstances last

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

Russia grants funding for Arctic nuclear waste ship

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:30
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Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed the decree granting 12,4 billion rubles to build a transport- and maintenance ship

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Sevmash delivers sixth Borei-class sub, launches the seventh

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2022 at 12:31
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Russia significantly increased its modern naval nuclear forces on Thursday as one new Borei-A class submarine was handed over to

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

Russia’s defense minister vows more troops near Nordic countries

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 07:55
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New military bases will be created in the western regions, Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting Wednesday between top military

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

Most expedition cruise liners exclude Russian Arctic

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 09:31
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The war on Ukraine and geopolitical turbulence with concerns growing of further escalations of tensions with Russia have knock-on effects

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

Putin orders FSB to step up border control

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 08:48
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“The FSB Border Guard Service must step up its work,” the President said in his video-recorded message on Security Service

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

Murmansk terminates sister city relations with Akureyri

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 16, 2022 at 08:20
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Russia’s war aggression isolates the country’s largest Arctic city. Previously, the Nordic cities Luleå, Rovaniemi and Tromsø have all terminated

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

Murmansk gets two new rescue helicopters for Arctic

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 12:20
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Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations deploys two brand new Mi-8 helicopters to its Arctic rescue center on the Kola Peninsula.

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