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Norway has rejected an asylum application from a man claiming to have deserted Russian mercenary group Wagner and fled to the country, his lawyer told a Norwegian newspaper on Tuesday.

Electrification, Ripples, and a Glass Plate, a group exhibition curated by Hilde Methi, is on view at the Fotogalleriet Foundation in Oslo. The exhibition revolves around restorative energy, non-extractivist energy, solar energy, hydrological energy, and human and beyond-human bodies, producing entropic forms of rest and resistance.

TIME captures Norway's High North, where a new Iron Curtain is coming down just miles away.

Assault rifles at the ready, binoculars pointed at the Russian shore, the patrol boats carrying Norwegian soldiers power up the Pasvik River at full speed.

Medvedev claims to have fought in Ukraine as a Wagner member for four months before deserting.

The border guard is one of few army units in Norway not in possession of drones. With the mid-winter icy escape to Norway by a Wagner mercenary soldier, questions again arise about the border patrols’ ability to detect illegals seeking a safe haven in Russia’s Nordic neighbors. Norway and Finl

A former commander with the Kremlin-linked Wagner private military company fled across the border to Norway in dramatic circumstances last Friday. Local police fear life and health are at risk if more illegal border crossers are coming in the polar night with temperatures down to minus 25 Celsius.

Russia and Western countries have stopped co-operating on scientific research | Europe

Rayakoski, The Nikel-Based Village Behind The Border Barbed Wire - If one goes to the banks of the Patsojoki River or Pasvik River and looks to the left, one will see Finland.