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Place
Barents Region
Population
(2012)[1]
• Total
5 206 000
• Density
2.9/km2 (8/sq mi)
The Barents Region is a name given, by advocates of establishing international cooperation after the fall of the Soviet Union, to the land along the coast of the Barents Sea, from Nordland in Norway to the Kola Peninsula in Russia and beyond all the way to the Ural Mountains and Novaya Zemlya, and south to the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea and the great lakes Ladoga and Onega. Among the projects is the Barents Road from Bodø in Norway through Haparanda in Sweden and Finland to Murmansk in Russia. The region has six million inhabitants on 1.75 million km2; three quarters of both belong to Russia.
The regional cooperation was formally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg. It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark in Norway; Västerbotten County and Norrbotten County in Sweden; Lapland region, Northern Ostrobothnia, Kainuu, and North Karelia in Finland; and Murmansk Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Republic of Karelia, and Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia. The four countries take turns at chairing the cooperation. Norway's participation is coordinated from the Norwegian Barents Secretariat in Kirkenes. Sweden's and Finland's participation is administrated from the county administrations in Umeå (Västerbotten) and Rovaniemi (Lapland). In January 2008 there was established an International Barents Secretariat which is to provide technical support for the multilateral coordinated activities within the framework of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council and the Barents Regional Council. This Secretariat is located in Kirkenes in the same building as the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.
^Population Statistic. The Barents Euro-Arctic Council Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Referenced on the 01.08.2016
that the Barents Regional Council has and for this reason it is desirable that council uses this resource to better advocate the Barentsregion. Sixth,...
of the Ural Mountains, separate the Barents Sea from the Kara Sea. Although part of the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea has been characterised as "turning...
Barents may refer to: René Barents (born 1951), Dutch judge and legal scholar Willem Barents (c. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer Barents AirLink...
Barents Observer (formally The Independent Barents Observer) is a Norwegian online newspaper which publishes news and op-ed content about the Barents...
of Karelia and Komi. This area cooperates through the Barents Euro-Arctic Council and Barents Regional Council.[citation needed] Nordic countries (orange...
(Northern Sami). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the BarentsRegion, and is the second largest and least populated...
renamed Barents Sea in his honour. Barentsburg, the second largest settlement on Svalbard, Barentsøya (Barents Island) and the BarentsRegion were also...
internationally by Finland to the west and Norway to the northwest and the Barents Sea lies to the north and White Sea lies to the south and east. Its administrative...
in Russia"). M. Gardin et al. Barents Strategy for the Advancement of Finnish Enterprise in the Russian BarentsRegion, pp. 14 and 19 "NENETS AUTONOMOUS...
Stokke, Olav Schram; Tunander, Ola; Nansen, Fridtjof, eds. (1994). The Barentsregion: cooperation in Arctic Europe. International Peace Research Institute...
Northwest Russia, the Baltic Sea and the Arctic regions, including the BarentsRegion. The ND Policy was initiated in 1999 and renewed in 2006. The Northern...
in the late 16th century. From their base at Kola, they explored the BarentsRegion and the Kola peninsula and Novaya Zemlya. Later the Pomor discovered...
and Greenland (Denmark). Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) is the forum for intergovernmental cooperation in the BarentsRegion established in 1993 to...
volume on the post-Cold War regional cooperation in Arctic Europe, The BarentsRegion with contributions by Norwegian and Russian foreign ministers. Tunander...
international competition «Onega Wave», the international festival of the Barentsregion «Northern Lights», the festival of music of the Nordic countries «Sankta...
Upper Norrland and onwards along the Haparanda Line to connect to the BarentsRegion and the Finnish railway network. It will also connect to the Iron Ore...
The Independent Barents Observer, as read on February 27, 2016. Barents.no – the Norwegian Barents Secretariat's official website BarentsObserver.com –...
Russia. It is currently the largest full professional orchestra in the Barentsregion. It is funded by the regional government of Murmansk. The Murmansk Regional...
of the European North of the Center for Humanitarian Problems of the BarentsRegion of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, established...
presence of polar bears, Ursus maritimus, whose population in the Barents Sea region is a genetically distinct sub-population of this species. Bear Island...
Russian monks in 1533; from their base at Kola, the Pomors explored the BarentsRegion, Spitsbergen, and Novaya Zemlya – all of which are in the Arctic Circle...
The Barents Sea is a secluded part of the Arctic Ocean divided between Norway and Russia. The politics in the Barents Sea is of paramount importance for...
http://www.livelib.ru/book/1000123027 ”Ethnic cleansing in the Barentsregion”, The Barents Encyclopedia. Umeå, 2016. “Koldyczewo concentration camp” (co-authored...
fire cruise missiles in Barents Sea". "Russian navy group, nuclear sub, sail north along coast of Norway". The Independent Barents Observer. Archived from...
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