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The Norwegian Barents Secretariat aims at developing the Norwegian-Russian relations in the north by promoting and funding Norwegian-Russian cooperation projects. As of 2022, the organisation has 11 employees in
barentsobserver.com, Retrieved August 5, 2011 After a conflict between owners and editors, a new website was established in October 2015, owned by its editors.About us
The Independent Barents Observer, as read on February 27, 2016.
Barents.no
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat's official web-site.
BarentsObserver.com
News about the Barents Region presented in English and Russian.
Barents Information Service
(Finnish, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish cooperative project to build a portal for the Barents region. Funded by the European Union Kolarctic Interreg program.)
barentscooperation.org
The Barents Euro-Arctic Council's official web-site. {{Coord, 65, N, 44, E, display=title Geography of Russia Geography of Finland Regions of Sweden Regions of Norway Northern Europe Barents Sea Novaya Zemlya
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat aims at developing the Norwegian-Russian relations in the north by promoting and funding Norwegian-Russian cooperation projects. As of 2022, the organisation has 11 employees in Kirkenes
Kirkenes (; ; Skolt Sami: ''Ǩeârkknjargg;'' fi, Kirkkoniemi; ; russian: Киркенес) is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town ...
; its offices are in Arxangelsk, Murmansk, and the Nenets Region, and Kirkenes.
On behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Secretariat grant funds to bilateral Norwegian-Russian cooperation projects. The Secretariat grants approximately 200 Norwegian-Russian projects annually.
The Secretariat is also a center of competence on Norwegian-Russian relations, by carrying through and finance various types of reviews or reports on relevant topics in the region. The Secretariat also coordinate the national goals with the regional political priorities within the frames of the multilateral Barents Cooperation, and work as a resource center for the councils, committees and working groups of the Barents Cooperation.
Head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat is Lars Georg Fordal (in office since sept 1st, 2016).
The online newspaper The Barents Observer, which covers far northern news issues, with news stories from Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland, published in English and Russian, was established in 2002 and operated under the aegis of the Barents Secretariat between 2005 and 2015.News from the Barents Region (About)barentsobserver.com, Retrieved August 5, 2011 After a conflict between owners and editors, a new website was established in October 2015, owned by its editors.
The Independent Barents Observer, as read on February 27, 2016.
See also
*Barents Region
The Barents Region is a name given, by advocates of establishing international cooperation after the fall of the Soviet Union, to the land along the coast of the Barents Sea, from Nordland in Norway to the Kola Peninsula in Russia and beyond a ...
*Northern Dimension
The Northern Dimension (ND) is a joint policy between four equal partners - the European Union, Russia, Norway and Iceland - regarding the cross-border and external policies geographically covering Northwest Russia, the Baltic Sea and the Arctic ...
*Sápmi (area)
(, smj, Sábme / Sámeednam, sma, Saepmie, sju, Sábmie, , , sjd, Са̄мь е̄ммьне, Saam' jiemm'n'e) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi is in Northern and Eastern Europe and includes the ...
*Circumpolar arctic
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at w ...
*Pomors
Pomors or Pomory ( rus, помо́ры, p=pɐˈmorɨ, ''seasiders'') are an ethnographic group descended from Russian settlers, primarily from Veliky Novgorod, living on the White Sea coasts and the territory whose southern border lies on a wa ...
References
External links
Barents.no
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat's official web-site.
BarentsObserver.com
News about the Barents Region presented in English and Russian.
Barents Information Service
(Finnish, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish cooperative project to build a portal for the Barents region. Funded by the European Union Kolarctic Interreg program.)
barentscooperation.org
The Barents Euro-Arctic Council's official web-site. {{Coord, 65, N, 44, E, display=title Geography of Russia Geography of Finland Regions of Sweden Regions of Norway Northern Europe Barents Sea Novaya Zemlya