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.

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.

Lukoil makes discovery of 200 million barrel oil field in the Republic of Komi.

Energy company Shell acquires its first license in the oil-rich Timan Pechora province.

Russia’s Arctic territories will become a separate object of state policy. A federal law on this subject is expected to be prepared in 2012.

This is the best political solution, Russian regional leaders in the Barents Region say about this weekend’s swop deal between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

Nikolai Vinnichenko takes over the post as leader of the Northwest Russian Federal District.

Thousands of people are moving away from the Russian part of the Barents Region.

The Komi Republic struggles with investments and industrial production, the latest Barents Monitoring report shows.

Several serious wildfires are raging in the Komi Republic.