Today we mark the 70 years anniversary for one of the many events that took place in the Northern areas of Norway, Russia and Finland during WWII. On August 16, 1940, the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha, the Princesses Ragnhild and Astrid and Prince...
Loaded with iron ore concentrate, the first ever foreign flag bulk carrier might sail the Northeast Passage in early September. Climate changes with melting Arctic sea ice will change the shipping routes from Europe to Asia, says the Norwegian ship o...
The head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat’s Russian offices, Andrey Shalyov, is to become Norway’s Honorary Consul in Arkhangelsk. The Honorary Consulate will be opened in September.
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Read all the articles related to the historical state visit to Norway by Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev. After almost 40 years of negotiations Norway and Russia reached a deal on maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
Visa-free travel in the border zone between Poland and Kaliningrad can trigger visa-freedom between Russia and the EU. Norway is negotiating similar visa-fre...
The number of Russian students at universities in Norway exploded last year and they now constitute the largest group of foreign students in Norway. The high...
Significant growth in the mining industry in the first half of 2010 prevented the economy of Murmansk Oblast from turning negative.
Police in Murmansk has 1000 copies of a book that is critical of Prime Minister Putin, the opposition group Solidarity says.
Yevgeny Nikora, leader of the United Russia party in Murmansk and speaker in the regional parliament, has resigned from his post.
Russia plans to toughen its laws on oil and gas production. The Ministry of Natural Resources will shortly submit a draft law to the State Duma that will obl...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Vyacheslav Pavlovsky as new ambassador to Norway . 
The U.S. Navy and civilian scientists have established a program that enables scientists to use Navy submarines to collect data from Arctic regions that are ...
A Russian research vessel will leave Murmansk in mid-July to study the extensions of the Siberian shelf.
The Norwegian high-tech intelligence in the north, directed towards what the Russians are doing, is still the most important part of Norwegian espionage, acc...
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