Cooperation has been a given on the Russian-Norwegian frontier for decades, if not centuries. The Norwegians call it “high north, low tension.” Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though, tension isn’t low.
Quil Lawrence & Connor Donevan, NPR NewsNorwegian coast guard cutters are used for rescue, fishery inspection, research purposes and general patrols in Norwegian waters.
“That’s important for Norway and the European Union and NATO and the whole world. And it’s important for the Russians,” he says. “In these days, Russia can use other methods to negotiate. Like in the Ukraine conflict, they are willing to use power than talking,” he says.As a founding member of NATO, Norway’s government has joined the rest of Europe in isolating Russia. But as a country bordering Russia, it’s feeling the effects more immediately than some others — in everything from Arctic climate action and nuclear waste control to cross-border trade and regional sports leagues.
Russia has about half of the world’s Arctic landmass, including permafrost that, if it melts, could release megatons of trapped carbon and greenhouse gases.“We have common publications. We have collected data together. We’ve been on each other’s cruises. I’ve been to people’s homes in Saint Petersburg, good friends,” he says.
The new Iron Curtain severed personal ties, economic links and even scuttled issues of mutual survival, Nilsen says. For years, Norway had been helping Russia safely dispose of spent fuel rods from its aging nuclear submarines, which were stationed in the Arctic.
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