Alexander Stubb, famous in the Barents Region for branding the north as the world´s most sexy region, is put on track to take over after Jyrki Katainen.
Troms County will for the next two years have the chairmanship of the Regional Council of the Barents Region. The new chairman Pia Svendsgård said in here opening speech that Troms will be an active chair in their period.
Over the last 50 years the population in the three northernmost counties in Norway, Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, have had an increase of 6.4 percent. At the beginning of 2010 there will be 465.400 peoples living in northern Norway.
The five most powerful people in Murmansk Oblast all work in the regional administration of Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko, a rating of the 50 most powerful in the region shows.
The agreement on delimitation of the Barents Sea and the Artic Ocean opens up for establishment of joint ventures for development of oil and gas fields in the border areas, President Medvedev says.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Finland on 27 May. Border issues and regional cooperation will be high on the meeting agenda with Finland’s Matti Vanhanen.
President Dmitry Medvedev is dissatisfied with the Russian Foreign Ministry and has decided to establish an International Affairs Council, which is to become an alternative platform for policy discussions.
Norway has together EFTA partners Iceland, Lichtenstein and Switzerland started negotiations with Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus on the establishment of a free trade agreement.
