SVR, GRU shown the door by Norway, and other news from the Barents Observer“They have engaged in activities not compatible with their diplomatic status,” says Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt. It is built to handle “any heavy cargo aircraft” and will serve primarily Arctic researchers and their drifting North Pole station. Arctic species are currently under multiple pressures and several are red-listed. Adaptive ecosystem-based monitoring and management applied to the critically endangered arctic fox in Finnmark, illustrates how such pressures can be uncovered and potentially mitigated. Что нового на севере? Послушайте все наши новости за прошлую неделю.Representatives of 13 so-called friendly countries were on site to observe the major search and rescue drills organized by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. There will be more Border Guard units out and about, as staff are shifted from border checkpoints.There are thousands of contaminated sites in the Arctic, and as permafrost thaws, increased pollutants from these areas could be released, says a recent study. Two new government documents downplay climate change and environmental protection and instead highlight “national interests” and “efficient development of natural resources.” Andrei Melnichenko owns coal mines, infrastructure and mineral fertilizer plants in the Arctic. In 2022 he doubled his fortune and made it to the top of the list of Russia’s wealthiest. There are mixed feelings in northernmost Finland on the country’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. But people agree that Putin’s war changed everything.
“They have engaged in activities not compatible with their diplomatic status,” says Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt.It is built to handle “any heavy cargo aircraft” and will serve primarily Arctic researchers and their drifting North Pole station.Arctic species are currently under multiple pressures and several are red-listed. Adaptive ecosystem-based monitoring and management applied to the critically endangered arctic fox in Finnmark, illustrates how such pressures can be uncovered and potentially mitigated.Что нового на севере? Послушайте все наши новости за прошлую неделю.Representatives of 13 so-called friendly countries were on site to observe the major search and rescue drills organized by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.There will be more Border Guard units out and about, as staff are shifted from border checkpoints.There are thousands of contaminated sites in the Arctic, and as permafrost thaws, increased pollutants from these areas could be released, says a recent study.Two new government documents downplay climate change and environmental protection and instead highlight “national interests” and “efficient development of natural resources.”Andrei Melnichenko owns coal mines, infrastructure and mineral fertilizer plants in the Arctic. In 2022 he doubled his fortune and made it to the top of the list of Russia’s wealthiest.There are mixed feelings in northernmost Finland on the country’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. But people agree that Putin’s war changed everything.
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Посольство России в Осло. | A Tu-74 makes one of the first landings in new airfield in Severnaya Zemlya. Photo: aari.ru | | | | | Foreign observers at Emercom’s exercise Secure Arctic 2023. Photo: Emercom Murmansk | Border guards at Raja-Jooseppi, Finland’s northernmost crossing to Russia. Photo: Saara-Maria Salonen | Abandoned mechanical workshop near the closed coal mine in the settlement of Pyramiden at Svalbard. Buildings here are at risk of falling apart over the thawing permafrost. Photo: Thomas Nilsen | “Protect the nature,” says the sign placed near polluting nickel plants in the Kola Peninsula. Photo: Atle Staalesen | Andrei Melnichenko owns the Commercial Seaport of Murmansk. Photo collage: BarentsObserver/Wikipedia | April 04, 2023 Without your help, our independent, fact-based nonprofit journalism would be difficult. Press freedom in the borderland to Russia in times of war and international trouble is more important than ever.
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