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Welcome to the Border Zone
Do you feel like crossing the border and hang around in the Norwegian-Russian borderland? Learn more about border-crossing, how to get around and establish new contacts in your neighboring Norwegian/Russian town.
Know your neighbour!
Separated by borders, the people of the neighboring Sør-Varanger and Pechenga municipalities live near eachother, but still far apart. This website seeks to bring neighbours closer.
News
Border town must remove garbage mountain
Regional prosecutors in Murmansk demand that the border town of Nikel cleans up a 60,000 square meter area used as dump site.
Borderzone agreement speed up hospital plans
The establishment of a visa free travel zone across the Norwegian-Russian border has pushed forward the plans to build a new hospital in the Norwegian border town of Kirkenes.
Borderzone church burnt to the ground
The church in Nikel, the Russian town located near the border to Norway and Finland, on Monday burnt to the ground
First opening in the Schengen-regime with Russia
2010-11-02Chemical ban for mining company
2010-10-27Family gathering securing cross border relations
2010-08-23Boost in border-crossings
2010-08-01Russian Customs raises duty-free limit
2010-06-25New cameras detect border violations
2010-06-14Regular foreign shipping to border zone fjord
2010-06-14Completing border zone road
2010-06-10More comfortable border-crossing
2010-06-04Nikel-pollution on Medvedev’s agenda
2010-04-28Agreement on visa-freedom in borderzone delayed
2010-04-27Coastal administration recommends the port of Kirkenes
2010-04-27
