Tag: Murmansk

  • New: Russian storming of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise

    New: Russian storming of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise

    Civil disobedience is everyday for the world's most famous environmental organization. The plan is to climb onto the Russian oil platform to prevent the test drilling for Arctic oil. But the Coast Guard's resistance is surprisingly violent, and on the second day of the operation, the ship Arctic Sunrise is stormed by armed agents. 30…

  • How to enter Russia by land as a tourist in 2023

    How to enter Russia by land as a tourist in 2023

    EU and US citizens must obtain a visa to travel to Russia. To obtain it, it is enough to make an appointment at your nearest Russian embassy or a Russian visa center in your country. The process of obtaining a visa takes about a week, but it is best to clarify the time frames on…

  • Finland expels nine employees of the Russian Embassy in Helsinki

    Finland expels nine employees of the Russian Embassy in Helsinki

    Marja Liivaladirector general of the Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Helsingin Sanomat announced that the deportations will take place in the near future, but a more detailed schedule is not given. He also refused to comment on the duties of the employees in question on the…

  • HS: Russia has responded to Finland’s diplomatic note about freezing the diplomatic account

    HS: Russia has responded to Finland’s diplomatic note about freezing the diplomatic account

    “We have been aware of the difficulties and tried to help Russian operations,” he said quoted saying for the journalists of Helsingin Sanomat at the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Oslo, Norway. Haavisto reminded that banks cannot make independent decisions about diplomatic relations and missions inevitably require some kind of banking connections. Russia’s response to…

  • 15 curious geographical facts about Russia

    15 curious geographical facts about Russia

    Russia spans four climate zones on Earth and 11 time zones. There are many geographical records in such a large territory. Extremes in the climate Oymyakon. Vadim Skryabin/TASS 1. The temperature in Russia at different times of the year ranges from -67C to +45C – a difference of 78 degrees! Two Russian settlements compete for…

  • Finland as a member of NATO, election results and gambling: Finland in the world press

    Finland as a member of NATO, election results and gambling: Finland in the world press

    The article begins with Finland’s long binding neutrality, and after joining NATO outlines the country’s defense capability. “Finland will introduce F-35 fighters by 2025, which will replace, for example, the F/A-18 Hornets designed by the USA that are currently in use. Finland is also one of the few countries that shoot the so-called of a…

  • The Russian conscientious objectors in Sweden

    The Russian conscientious objectors in Sweden

    Conflict hits several Russian men in Sweden who fled Putin’s Russia after the war started and sought asylum here. Dmitry from Saint Petersburg left after the mobilization and the choice, as he sees it, “to kill or be killed”. Sergei Nazarenkov from Murmansk he also left for fear of being mobilized, but the former elite…

  • Akureyri breaks off cooperation with Murmansk as part of twin cities

    Akureyri breaks off cooperation with Murmansk as part of twin cities

    The Akureyri City Council has decided to end the city twinning with Murmansk in Russia and to withdraw from the Northern Forum association. This is according to the minutes of yesterday’s meeting of the Akureyri city council, in which we read that it decided to end cooperation due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The invasion…

  • What punishment can a Soviet citizen receive for marrying a foreigner

    What punishment can a Soviet citizen receive for marrying a foreigner

    Women who married foreign men in the 1940s Soviet Union could spend several years in a labor camp. Soviet security agencies ran a program of strict surveillance of such ladies. Very few ever managed to reunite with their husbands – and often paid a high price beyond that. Kharitonenko Manor on the Sofiyskaya Embankment in…

  • NATO expansion root cause of the crisis in Ukraine: former senior French official

    NATO expansion root cause of the crisis in Ukraine: former senior French official

    © Provided by Xinhua Conesa said that a diplomatic modus vivendi could still be found to achieve peace in Ukraine, but for this to happen, Russia’s security problems must be taken into account. By Xu Chi and Xu Jiatong GENEVA, May 16 (Xinhua) – Attempts to extend membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)…

  • This was Russia’s only window into Europe for centuries

    This was Russia’s only window into Europe for centuries

    Until Peter I struggled to create his “window to Europe” through the Baltic Sea, the only window of its kind that Russia ever had was located in the Arctic Ocean. It was the city of Arkhangelsk. Today, Russia is washed away by 13 seas. However, this was not always the case. In the 16th century,…

  • Revitalization of a small Russian town

    Revitalization of a small Russian town

    This is the story of a small town in Nikel in the Murmansk region of the Russian Arctic. “History is one of the few examples where a new vector has been chosen for the development or renewal of the area. The conditions and context in the Petsamo area, which includes the city of Nickel, are…

  • A Russian cargo plane makes an unexplained orbit over Finland

    A Russian cargo plane makes an unexplained orbit over Finland

    A large Russian cargo plane made a long, unexpected and unexplained route over Central and Southern Finland on Saturday night, passing the Finnish Air Force headquarters and intelligence unit. According to military and security experts interviewed by Yle, the reason for the flight detour could be either a Russian protest or an intelligence operation as…

  • Title No. 6 Golden Globe Award Winner

    Title No. 6 Golden Globe Award Winner

    Juho Kuosmanen‘s Title No. 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and now has a Golden Globe Award The film’s producer, Jussi Rantamäki, told Yle that the appointment came as a surprise. "There were no clues and we were not in the candidacy. It even happened that when Juho…

  • Support for Arctic minorities was highlighted at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum

    Support for Arctic minorities was highlighted at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum

    One of the highlights of the conference was the announcement of a 2 billion ruble ($ 25.9 million) commitment by Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel to support indigenous peoples ’small businesses. Arctic people. “On Saturday, the company signed an agreement to support the Sámi in the Russian Arctic region, Murmansk region,” Andrey Grachev, vice president…

  • Archaic villages on the White Sea

    Archaic villages on the White Sea

    Historian and architectural expert William Brumfield discovers the wooden corpses in life in the Russian north. Company. St. Church. Peter & Paul, south view. Right background: village house & Virma River. July 7, 2000 William Brumfield In the early 20th century, Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky developed a complex process for vivid, detailed color…

  • A small earthquake rumbles in Northern Ostrobothnia

    A small earthquake rumbles in Northern Ostrobothnia

    An earthquake measured on a Richter scale of 2.0 hit the city of Kuusamo in northern Ostrobothnia on Sunday evening at about 6 p.m. Toni VeikkolainenA seismologist at the Institute of Seismology at the University of Helsinki told Yle that the epicenter of the quake was located about 11 kilometers west of the city. The…

  • Sweden expands defense co-operation with Finland and Norway

    Sweden expands defense co-operation with Finland and Norway

    Sweden, Norway and Finland today signed a co-operation agreement on strengthened military operational defense co-operation in the North Calotte. In an interview with TV4, Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist says that the increased cooperation will act as a deterrent to Russia – This is a common ambition from both Sweden, Finland and Norway. And this…