BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows who proclaimed it in ...
BARENTSBURG, NorwayBARENTSBURG, Norway — Russian food supplies bound for an Arctic coal mining settlement have resumed transiting via mainland Norway after weeks of tension, a Russian representative ...
Long ReadDespite being on Norwegian territory, Barentsburg's residents are Russians and Ukrainians who have come to work here. Since the invasion of Ukraine, it has found itself at the center of a ...
In Barentsburg, in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, relics of a bygone era - a bust of Lenin, a sculpture with Cyrillic script declaring “Our goal - Communism” - bear witness to Russia’s longstanding ...
Relations sour between Svalbard town’s Russian and Ukrainian communities while local tourism company is accused of being ‘arm of the Russian state’ “Barentsburg welcomes you” read the white letters in ...
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