It was late last fall Sergey Lavrov sent the official invitation for the bi-annual ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council. As chair country, the venue would be in the Russian north. Like last time Lavrov headed the council, in 2006, he chose Salekhard in Siberia as venue.
The high-profile even
Live fire training this week takes place at the Shary shooting range near Pechenga, the main base of the 200th Motorised Rifle Brigade. The exercise is lead by officers and instructors with experience from the war against Ukraine, the Northern Fleet informs.
The shooting range is located only abo
The border guard is one of few army units in Norway not in possession of drones.
With the mid-winter icy escape to Norway by a Wagner mercenary soldier, questions again arise about the border patrols’ ability to detect illegals seeking a safe haven in Russia’s Nordic neighbors.
Norway and Finl
Russian citizens applying for asylum in Norway was up from 13 in 2021 to 294 in 2022.
Should Norway shelter the men fleeing Putin’s military mobilization order? Politicians are uncertain and the Directorate of Immigration is pausing decisions for those who came last fall and now apply for asylum.
Anyone interested in pitching in on an ongoing walrus census, can sign up as armchair detectives when the counting period for the project opens on January 17.
The five-year Walrus from Space project was launched in 2021 by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The