In a manifestation of Nordic NATO unity, more than 200 vehicles and 300 containers are sent from the USA to Narvik and further to an allied exercise in Finland.
New churches are to be built at the heavily militarised Arctic archipelago. They will serve Russia’s 12th Main Directorate, the organisation responsible for nuclear munitions.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the military court in Zaozersk, Kola Peninsula, has filed 76 cases against men that refuse to sign contacts with the Armed Forces.
Several bases for long-range drones will be built along the Northern Sea Route, a representative of the Russian Defence Ministry says to newspaper Izvestia.
Andrei Kuznetsov gets 229,000 rubles (€2,320) from the Murmansk regional Reserve Fund for his efforts to recruit local men for the war of aggression against Ukraine
Atle is journalist and Publisher of the Independent Barents Observer.
In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer. He was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. In late 2015, following a conflict over editorial rights, he re-established the Barents Observer as an independent and non-profit stock company along with the rest of the newspaper crew.
Atle has a degree in Russian studies from the University of Oslo and studied journalism at the Moscow State University.