Tag: Northern Norway
Russian vessel crews face new restrictions
Norway has controversially continued to allow Russian vessels to dock at selected ports in the north, for trade and maritime assistance reasons. Now the...
Sami mark 30th national day in the cold
Norway's indigenous Sami people have their own Parliament and are in the midst of a cultural reawakening. On the 30th anniversary of their national...
Questions rise around Russian deserter
UPDATED: A Russian deserter who was picked up by Norwegian soldiers on patrol along Norway's border earlier this month is now facing lots of...
Russian mercenary taken into custody
Police in Oslo have now officially arrested Andrei Medvedev, a young Russian man who fled to Norway after deserting the Wagner group, a St...
Russian Wagner defector ‘in secret location’
A young Russian man who fled over the border to Northern Norway late last week has officially filed for asylum and is now living...
Russian mercenary flees to Norway
Police in Norway's northern region of Finnmark arrested a man in the middle of the night on Friday, and charged him with illegally crossing...
Tromsø cuts its ties to Russian ‘friendship’ cities
The municipal council in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its "frienship city" ties with Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and...
Bomb threat at gas plant ‘unnecessarily’ raised war-related fears
A new survey shows that one out of every three Norwegians now fears potential acts of war. Police claim those fears "unnecessarily" rose Thursday,...
Norway tightens Russian border control
Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl flew up to Northern Norway's border to Russia on Sunday to meet with local police and defense forces stationed...
Russian men flee to Northern Norway
Their numbers aren't nearly as large as the 17,000 arriving in Finland over the weekend, but hundreds of Russian men subject to being drafted...
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