Russian President says additional measures should be taken to protect Russian interests in critical important areas, including the Arctic.

The groundbreaking developments in Norwegian-Russian relations, which unfolded in 2010 and 2011 should be followed up with more regional cooperation and new joint action in the two countries´ borderlands, the authors of the Barents Review 2012 write.

A fear that fish might jump 100 meters across dry land, has made Norwegian authorities deny the Norwegian-Russian fish farming company Kirkenes Charr a license to set up a butchery. This will probably mean the end for the company and millions of NOK in losses for the Russian and Norwegian investors.

Russia has climbed to the top of the Norwegian fish export list and passed France in 2011. The total export of Norwegian fish to Russia was € 650 million last year.

The Russian veterinary service Rosselkhoznadzor is found guilty by the Federal Antimonopoly Service in illegal reduction of the number of importers of Norwegian salmon.

Still no indictment one year after the Norwegian fishing vessel Fløygrunn was hit and sank by another vessel in the Barents Sea.

The Russian state mining company Arktikugol has suggested that fishers from Murmansk should deliver fresh fish to the Russian settlement on Svalbard.

Following the increasing international focus on the maritime areas surrounding Svalbard, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published comprehensive back-ground material.

Our fish farming projects will soon squeeze Norwegian fish out of the Russian market, said Murmansk Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko.

OSLO: The exclusion of Norwegian salmon exporters from the Russian market has nothing to do with the recent detention of Russian trawlers in the waters around Spitsbergen, leaders of Russian fishery unions underline.