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Survey: Majority of Finns consider Russia a significant military threat

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 11:13
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Eighty-four percent of Finns consider Russia to be a significant military threat, according to a recent values and attitudes survey

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New sanctions deal fatal blow to Russia’s Arctic LNG

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 10:51 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 10:54
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Russia intended to become a world leader in liquefied natural gas. The war against Ukraine has torpedoed its plans. The

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Finnish PM wants NATO decision to be taken this spring

Yle News
Posted: Monday, April 4, 2022 at 11:00
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Sanna Marin on Saturday told Social Democratic Party delegates gathered in Helsinki that it was time for Finland to seriously

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Ukrainian president warns Norway against Russian Arctic militarization

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 09:35
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“We do not have common borders, but we have a common neighbor that stands against our common values,” the Ukrainian

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Blog: Russia’s Arctic gas is funding the war in Ukraine

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:31 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:35
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the seven other member states of the Arctic Council have hit a “pause”

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Last Europe-Russia rail link suspended in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2022 at 12:22
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The last Allegro train from St. Petersburg for the foreseeable future rolled into Helsinki on Sunday evening at 7pm, carrying

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Russia announces stricter entry rules as new Iron Curtain looms

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2022 at 10:59
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The Russian foreign minister says a draft presidential decree is being made aimed at restricting entry rules for people from

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More than 2,300 Swedish and Finnish troops advance into Northern Norway to join NATO drills Cold Response

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 15:40
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Trucks packed with military hardware could this weekend be seen in big numbers on the roads that connect northern Sweden

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Russian invasion of Ukraine puts ‘more attention onto the needs of the Arctic’

Julia Peterson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 15:22
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A man whose life was upended in the name of Arctic sovereignty says Canada now needs to do more to keep

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A wave of war propaganda is gushing over Russian youth

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 12:08
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“The Russian Army is fighting for the security of Russia and the whole world against Nazism,” a video produced by

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Finland tests Nato waters with existing members

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 15:39
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Finland has attended a flurry of high level international meetings since Russia invaded Ukraine. Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told Yle that security

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Russia issues largest warning zone in Norwegian Barents Sea “since Cold War”

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 10:44
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“Impact Area for Russian missiles” reads the warning covering an area from the Varanger fjord in the east almost to

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Canada honours Arctic’s last known WW II bone collector

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 14:14 — Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 14:30
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In late May 1940, 20-year-old Qapik Attagutsiak voluntarily picked up a burlap bag, put her one-year-old son in her amauti ⁠— a

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Norway, Russia set differences aside for WWII commemorations in Kirkenes

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 28, 2019 at 10:11 — Last Updated: Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:09
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Norway’s king and prime minister met Russia’s Sergey Lavrov by a memorial devoted to Soviet liberation of Norwegian border town

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Towns in northwest Russia commemorate liberation from Nazi Germany

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 10:21
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War heroes are saluted, fallen comrades commemorated and civilian suffering paid respect as the towns of Nikel and Kirkenes look

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