"Darkness is not forever," says well-known lawyer in exile Ivan Pavlov.Ivan Pavlov believes in a new and beautiful Russia and says he will be “on the first flight home” as soon as the Putin regime falls. “We are optimists. Putin is not forever,” the well-known human rights lawyer in exile says. The court ordered repeat election of the the 2023 Sámi Parliament started. Five out of the 36 candidates running for parliament did not participate in the 2023 elections.Norway has set June 10th as deadline to tear down the giant orthodox cross illegally erected last August in the Soviet ghost town of Pyramiden.The northern explorer-turned-sanctioned-lawmaker is likely most famous for his 2007 North Pole dive to 4,200 meters below the Arctic Ocean where he planted the Russian flag. Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday added the Put’ Domoi (The Way Home), a group consisting of wives, mothers and sisters of soldiers, to the list of so-called ‘foreign agents’.Decision-makers need to develop more robust policies to address the potential impacts of climate tipping points that threaten to destabilize the climate system, a new policy brief out of Finland says. OpEd: There are many casualties of the invasion of Ukraine that will haunt Russia for generations to come. Far from the battlefields, in the country’s northwest loom radioactive threats that remain only half cleaned up and largely ignored.Что нового на севере? Послушайте все наши новости за прошлую неделю в одном подкасте
Ivan Pavlov believes in a new and beautiful Russia and says he will be “on the first flight home” as soon as the Putin regime falls. “We are optimists. Putin is not forever,” the well-known human rights lawyer in exile says.The court ordered repeat election of the the 2023 Sámi Parliament started. Five out of the 36 candidates running for parliament did not participate in the 2023 elections.Norway has set June 10th as deadline to tear down the giant orthodox cross illegally erected last August in the Soviet ghost town of Pyramiden.The northern explorer-turned-sanctioned-lawmaker is likely most famous for his 2007 North Pole dive to 4,200 meters below the Arctic Ocean where he planted the Russian flag.Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday added the Put’ Domoi (The Way Home), a group consisting of wives, mothers and sisters of soldiers, to the list of so-called ‘foreign agents’.Decision-makers need to develop more robust policies to address the potential impacts of climate tipping points that threaten to destabilize the climate system, a new policy brief out of Finland says.OpEd: There are many casualties of the invasion of Ukraine that will haunt Russia for generations to come. Far from the battlefields, in the country’s northwest loom radioactive threats that remain only half cleaned up and largely ignored.Что нового на севере? Послушайте все наши новости за прошлую неделю в одном подкасте
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Ivan Pavlov continues to work for change in Russia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen | The Sámi Parliament gathering in Sajos, Inari in January 2024. Photo: Ville-Riiko Fofonoff / Sámediggi | Saamelaiskäräjät | Bishop Iyakov of Naryan-Mar and Mezen proclaimed Pyramiden to be Russian as he blessed the ghost town with holy water. The Russian Orthodox cross erected on August 5, 2023, is decorated with St. Georg’s Ribbon, a symbol widely associated in Russia with the commemoration of victory in World War II, patriotism and support to the war in Ukraine. Photo collage with screenshots from video by Trust Arktikugol | Polar explorer Artur Chilingarov (left) at his last visit to Tromsø. Here in conversation with Vyacheslav Pavlovsky, Moscow’s former Ambassador to Oslo. Photo: Thomas Nilsen | Демонстрация цветов 9 мая, в День Победы, была организована женами, матерями, сестрами и детьми мобилизованных солдат, отправленных на войну в Украину. Фото из Telegram-канала «Путь домой» | When glaciers melt, darker surfaces are exposed, which absorb heat. This raises temperatures even more. Photo: Thomas Nilsen | Reactor compartments from decommissioned submarines were floating at piers in Saida Bay, Kola Peninsula. Photo: Thomas Nilsen | June 03, 2024 A big thanks to everyone helping the Barents Observer bringing fact-based journalism across borders despite Moscow’s censorship repression. We make independent news from the Russian North and the European Arctic. Your donation today helps much. Thank you!
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