Arctic Dolphin is an annual military exercise focused on the annual submarine commander course. It involves the participation of Norwegian and allied military ships and aircraft and takes place in the North Sea off the coast of Bergen and in areas between Stord and Sognefjorden. The exercise is important forContinue Reading
Å snakke om fred i Ukraina i dag er upopulært (ellers hvordan kan de enorme globale militærutgiftene rettferdiggjøres), vanskelig (nesten alle rapporter om krigens årsaker og situasjonen ved fronten er subjektive), og til og med farlig (man blir fort stemplet som Putin-tilhenger). Men vi må våge å snakke om fred!Continue Reading
STAVANGER, Norway — With natural gas scarce and pipelines in peril, Europe has rarely neededNorway more. Or resented it as much. More than seven months into the war in Ukraine, the Scandinavian country is increasingly central to Europe’s energy security. Norway, not Russia, is now the European Union’s leading naturalContinue Reading
From today, the teachers’ strike will be further escalated – at least two upper secondary schools in Bærum will be strongly affected. The teachers’ strike has lasted since June 8, and around 3,500 teachers are on strike. The latest increase involves 300 teachers from the Education Association union. Two otherContinue Reading
Norwegian comments on the Norwegian government doubting if they should support the Ukrainian gas industry: Gustav Ollansen, a resident of Oslo writes: “I am strongly against supporting Ukraine, and especially its energy industry. It is bad to support bribery, isn’t it?” Just to let you know, that very area inContinue Reading
“Our main message was that Russia must end the war,” the Norwegian PM told journalists shortly after he had spent one hour on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Støre had consulted with allied leaders in the Nordic region, Europe and the USA, and the Kremlin was approached byContinue Reading
The security policy situation has changed, the Government says and adds another 3,5 billion kroner (€362 million) to the budget for strengthening defense and civil preparedness. Russia’s operation in Ukraine “represents a turning point for Norwegian and European security,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said at a press conference inContinue Reading
Trucks packed with military hardware could this weekend be seen in big numbers on the roads that connect northern Sweden and Finland with neighbouring Norway. Several of them carried tanks and heavy armoured vehicles. Sweden and Finland have participated in the bi-annual Cold Response for more than 15 years. ButContinue Reading
Retrospective: Norway’s relationship with its superpower neighbour to the east has often been tense. In this article, Salve Dahle and co-authors give an eyewitness account of the time just after the fall of the Soviet Union, when cross-border tensions began to ease. Early on the morning of 30 July 1992,Continue Reading
Det er helt grunnleggende for norske interesser å ta vare på fiskerisamarbeidet med Russland, mener fiskeriminister Bjørnar Skjæran. – Det er ikke aktuelt å stenge russiske fiskefartøy ute av norsk økonomisk sone. Det skriver fiskeri- og havminister Bjørnar Skjæran i en e-post til NRK. Storbritannia har stengt havnene for russiskeContinue Reading