Tag: Russia

Russian relations ‘not the same’

After years of political pride and satisfaction over Norway's close relations with its large neighbour to the east, concerns are now rising in the...

Cross-border trade in reverse, in Northern Norway

While Norwegians stream over the border, especially in southern Norway, to take advantage of lower prices in Sweden, the cross-border trade in the far...

Statoil pursues life after Shtokman

Norwegian oil firm Statoil is pursuing its many investment opportunities after handing back a 24 percent stake in Russia's giant Shtokman gas field and...

Norway unhappy with Russia and China over Syria

The Norwegian government is holding Russia and China "especially" responsible for preventing the UN Security Council from making serious attempts to halt the violence...

Questions rise over big oil deal

Statoil's huge oil exploration deal with Russian firm Rosneft in the Arctic may not be as promising as initially thought, suggests a Norwegian researcher...

Russia: US will send ships to Norway

A Russian diplomat has claimed that American authorities are hoping to place warships in Norwegian waters as part of the planned NATO missile defense...

Ex-Labour leaders deny halting book

Former leaders of Norway's Labour Party, including current Council of Europe leader Thorbjørn Jagland, flatly deny a report in newspaper Dagbladet over the weekend...

Russia admits nuclear weaknesses

Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom has admitted that Russia's nuclear power plants are seriously underprepared to deal with a natural disaster on the scale...

Smooth sailing for Norway and Russia

Relations seem better than ever between Norway and Russia, following a few recent conflicts over salmon imports, human rights, business trouble for Telenor and...

Russian extremists have police photos

Photographs of 82 men that appear to be taken by the Norwegian police and would only be accessible to police officers have been published...
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