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Travel and Tourism

• Enterprising Dutchman boosts tourism
• Beautiful Kandalaksha – a new, undiscovered tourist destination by the White Sea
• The Distinctive Features of Fishing Tourism on the Kola Peninsula - Jussi Soppela

Cooperation and politics

• Halfway towards a strategy for the future Barents collaboration - article by Annika Blomster from the mid-term conference of the Barents 2010 project on December 8-9 in Kajaani, Finland, theme of the event was ”A Prosperous Barents in Harmony with the World”.
• The Russian Barents Sea Region towards 2015 - what direction will be right one? By Jonas Nuldén
• Lapland & The European Union - How Did We Fare? - Introduction to the seminar on the enlargement of the European Union by Governor Hannele Pokka

Culture

• Reindeer is our life and future - an interview of the President of Yasavey Vladislav Peskov by the BarentsObserver
• Lateral thinking - Despite its cold climate, the Barents region is a hotbed of choral activity. Maggie Hamilton travels to the Arctic Circle to find out more - article
• New rooms in the library - Barents Library Conference gathered field’s professionals to Umeå in September 2009  by Jenni Lintula, Communications Officer at the Arctic Centre

Business, trade & economy

• Heating Up - Arctic Waters and Arctic Debate Getting Warmer. By Paul Abelsky in Russia Profile - Article about the border dispute between Russia and Norway and fishing industry.
• Kuolan niemimaa opettelee markkinataloutta [pdf], Riitta Kosonen ja Päivi Karhunen, HKKK / Venäjän ja Baltian keskus (2002)

Education & research

• Global Change Vulnerabilities in the Barents Region: Linking Arctic Natural Resources,Climate Change and Economies (BALANCE) - project aims to assess the impacts of present and future climatic changes on terrestrial and marine ecosystems as well as on human societies in the Barents Sea Region.
• Human-Environment Relations in Arctic Ecosystems, a lecture by Research Professor Bruce Forbes
• The Importance of International Environmental Law in the Arctic, a lecture by Research Professor Timo Koivurova
• Towards Sustainability in Northwest Russia? An Analysis of the Transition, lecture by Research Professor Monica Tennberg
• Articles about Education & Research from Sweden.se

History

• Rowhouses on the coast of the Arctic Ocean
• Age of iron
• Seal hunters’ dwellings by the River Kemijoki in the Stone Age
• Ylikylä – medieval Rovaniemi
• Conflicts in the Barents region

Society & welfare

• Arkhangelsk-Nenets relations: forced marriage between inequal partners, part 1
• Arkhangelsk-Nenets relations: forced marriage between inequal partners, part 2

Technology & infrastructure

• Information structure of the Komi Republic

Nature and environment

• Conditions of environmental impact assessment for the economic and military objects in the Russian part of the Barents region. Elena Komleva
• Arrestment of environmental activist in Polyarny Zori where the workers at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant live - article in Bellona website.

The articles below are from the publication: CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna) 2001. Arctic Flora and Fauna: Status and Conservation. The whole publication is available online in address: www.caff.is

Biology & Zoology

• How land animals adapt to cold and snow
• Staying warm in a cold climate 
• Conserving Arctic char
• The Atlantic salmon: a species in trouble 
• Life within sea ice
• Climate and fish stocks in the Barents sea
• Brown bear
• Mosquitoes
• Lemmings: key actors in the tundra food web
• Wolves 
• Mountain birch and the Nordic treeline

Climate, nature and humans

• The North Atlantic oscillation and reindeer husbandry
• Northern farming
• Protected areas in Northern Fennoscandia
• Tourism – threat or benefit to conservation?
• Management and biodiversity in Fennoscandian timberline forests 
• Habitat fragmentation: a threat to arctic biodiversity and wilderness
• International legal instruments for conservation