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Andrey Medvedev, the former Wagner Group commander who made headlines in January 2023 for escaping to Norway in a bid to seek asylum, was arrested by Norwegian authorities near Kirkenes after trying to cross back into Russia.
Norwegian police detained the former commander of one of Russia’s Wagner mercenary company units, Andrei Medvedev, while he was trying to cross the border into Russia, newspaper the Barents Observer reported on Sept. 22.
Norway is planning to make a decision to restrict the entry of private cars with Russian licence plates. Source: NRK, referring to the statement of the State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eivind Vad Petersson; European Pravda Details: The official said that the Foreign Ministry is currently working on new rules to restrict the import of Russian cars into the country.
Donor countries agree to fund an additional study on how to extract the damaged spent nuclear fuel from Tank 3A. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/12/2023-risky-part-andreeva-bay-nuclear-cleanup-starts by Thomas Nilsen Read in Russian | Читать по-русски Take a closer look at this photo and you will understand the scoop of the most challenging and risky work to be done at the…
Sergei Lavrov on Monday informed the other members of the Barents Cooperation about the withdrawal from the official structures where Russia has been frozen out since the start of the all-out war against Ukraine.