FSB’s border guard service plans to use seaplanes in monitoring of Russia’s border rivers and Arctic waters.

Petrozavodsk - Sortavala – Joensuu- Oulu. Not yet ready for departure, but lobbying has started to open the border for train traffic.

The fishing industry in the Lake of Ongea could be seriously harmed if the dreaded Chinese mitten crab is left to spread, a Karelian professor warns.

The 270.000 citizens in the Petrozavodsk will benefit when the wastewater treatment facility in the Karelian capital will be upgraded and Lake Onega will be cleaner.

Rights groups and opposition party Yabloko claim that election officials fabricated 20 to 25 percent of United Russia’s votes in the parliamentary election. Many violations are reported throughout Barents Russia.

The demonstrations in Moscow over the Duma elections are now spreading all across Russia. Protest are planned to be held in Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk and a long list of other Russian town on Saturday.

Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Murmansk and Nenets are among the Federal Districts in Russia where United Russia got fewest votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Protests triggered by election fraud in the streets of Moscow last night have not spread to the north.

Gazprom is making the Republic of Karelia a top priority.

Russia plans to renovate several of the country’s important waterways, first of all the famous Belomorkanal, which connects the White Sea and the Onega Sea.

Public opinion survey before next month’s Duma election is not good reading for Karelia’s Governor Andrey Nelidov.