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Norway has begun the construction of a wall along the Norwegian-Russian border at the checkpoint Storskog–Borisoglebsky in a bid to prevent a new wave of migrants coming to Norway. Last winter more than 5,000 refugees entered the Nordic country ...
... considered to be inhuman or degrading, it would still be so even in a sea view penthouse – as physical comfort is not directly related to mental issues resulting from imposed solitude. While the Norwegian case might be an extreme one, it shows that Norway protects human rights of everyone in its jurisdiction, including those deprived of their liberty. Unfortunately, many countries – including the US , Russia , Japan , and many others – cannot show the same results. Maybe it is time ...
... it is going to file its improved claim for about 1.2 million square kilometers of the Arctic shelf with the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Approval is not clear-cut, given opposition from the United States, Canada and possibly Norway. As a result, Russia might well have to unilaterally declare its sovereignty over the Soviet sector of the Arctic. This is lending new facets to existing Antarctic issues. The continent has long been of marginal importance for Russia , although ...
The fates of Sweden, Norway and Denmark during the Second World War were different. Sweden opted for neutrality, whereas Denmark and Norway fell victims to Nazi aggression. Each Scandinavian nation has its own historical memory of the events that took place in those years....
The Russia-Norway relationship has recently seen a surprising development. According to media reports, on April 18, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin flew to the central Arctic to commission drifting station North Pole-2015 with a brief stopover on Norwegian ...
... entice its North European neighbors with the idea of a Scandinavian Defense Union based on collective security and noninterference in the conflicts between superpowers, which reflected the neutralist sentiments predominant in Scandinavia. But Denmark and Norway, still fearful of a repeat loss of sovereignty, preferred to join the militarily and politically powerful NATO, although with reservations, like the ban on the deployment of foreign troops and bases on their territory in peacetime, and later an ...
On April 15, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov went to Oslo to take part in an international seminar on future relationship between Russia and the West held by Norwegian energy company Statoil and attended by Statoil leaders and specialists engaged in Russia projects, as well as international experts from Finland, Germany, Great Britain and other countries. The discussion focused on current geopolitical situation, Western sanctions against Russia, possible macroeconomic and macropolitical...
... on our map of compiled locations, but they are fundamentally different from their North American and Russian counterparts. Nordic military installations tend to be numerous, true, but much smaller compared to those in Russia, Canada or the USA. Norway: small population, big military Norway, despite being the least populous of the four mainland Nordic countries, has the largest military budget[3]. It boasts military stations and outposts of varying sizes along the entire length of its coastline ...
The purpose of this article is to examine Norway’s initiative of creating a Nordic Defense Alliance in the Arctic and the consequences it may have for Russia and Arctic cooperation. Author: Elodie Testa, Research Intern at RIAC, graduate student at MGIMO-University It is a well-established ...
... development for the northern regions of the country , which was announced in 2006 and augmented in 2009, in which Russia was proclaimed a key partner in its practical implementation, and not winding it up, the Conservative Party that came to power in Norway after the last parliamentary elections has intensified the ritual bellicose anti-Russian rhetoric, for the benefit of its main military and political ally, the USA, rather than because of any real growing apprehension about the “Russian threat”....
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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