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Welcome to the Barents portal!

The BarentsInfo.org portal contains general information about the region, articles giving an overview of different topics and links. From the Barents Euro-Arctic Council’s website you can find information on the official cooperation in the region. The contents of the portal is organized under following categories:

Information about the region - Administration - Barents Sea - Cooperation -  Culture - Customs information -  Dictionary - Documents - Economy & Business - Education & Research - Environment & Nature - Events - Funding - History - Indigenous people - Maps - Media & News  - Natural resources -  News feeds - Photos  - Projects - Statistics - Society - Travel & Tourism - Transport & Communications - Weather - Webcams -  Youth - Search

 News from the Barents region   - news in English and Russian from the Barents region, updated daily with English-Russian-English translation.


This is also a forum for sharing knowledge and relevant information on the region and your input is highly appreciated. The BarentsInfo.org portal is maintained by the Arctic Centre , University of Lapland.

Link of the week: Lapland.fi / Lappi.fi  - portal to the Finnish Lapland, maintained by the Regional Council of Lapland.
Latest link:  Barents Review 2010 - Talking Barents - People, borders and regional cooperation. Publication by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat which looks at political developments, cross-border projects, border-crossing procedures, oil and gas issues, indigenous peoples affairs and the relationship between Russian regions and the federal centre. See latest link archive.

In Russian (google translator)

 

    


  Did you know?
Ancient Norwegian (Norse) seal and whale hunters were active in Barents Sea during 800s.
  News
Open position at the International Barents Secretariat
Blicken på Kalotten / Katse Kalotille - Nordkalottkonferens på Ylläs, 20–22. 8. 2010
The 16th Nordic Conference on Reindeer and Reindeer Husbandry Research
Schoolchildren in the Barents Region are happier than in the south
Arctic Business Forum, Rovaniemi 18.2.2010
Across the Arctic Ocean - Russian Arctic Expeditions
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