Iceland offers COVID-19 testing to international travellers starting June 15
Iceland began offering COVID-19 testing to international travellers on Monday, in hopes that giving tourists a way to avoid two-week
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4% border traffic growth between Norway and Russia in 2019
Highest number of border-crossers between Russia and Norway since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Figures from the Norwegian police
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Russian visa applications in Norway hit 10-year-low
More than three times more Chinese were granted visa by Norway than Russians, in 2018. Cross-border traffic from Russia to
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Barents region leaders dream of visa-free travel, but Schengen Agreement gives little hope
Regional leaders are on a crash course with national and international legislation as they call for the abolishment of the
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Russia – Norway border traffic twice as high as few years back
Including July, this year has seen more crossings at the Russian-Norwegian border than during entire 2009. Immigration officials at Norway’s
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Guest officers deployed at Russia-Finland Arctic border
The first guest officers from other Schengen countries came to Finland’s northern border checkpoints to Russia on Monday. The flow
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Norway visa rules worry indigenous peoples
Andrey Vokuev in Naryan-Mar, Russia, fears for the cooperation between indigenous peoples. Next week, applicants from the Nenets tundra will
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