Since the head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat’s Arkhangelsk office has been appointed as Honorary Consul of Norway in Arkhangelsk, the Secretariat will also be changing its address. The new address is Pomorskaya Street 16.

This photo of the Russian and the Norwegian border commissioner without their uniforms shows in its simple manner the close relations on the Norwegian-Russian border.

The 20th Vardø Pomor Festival was carried out in July-August 2010. An important reason for the development of cooperation between the Arkhangelsk region and Vardo is the efforts of social organisations such as the Pomor Association. Every year people of art, singers, craftsmen, museums representatives come to the Festival in Vardø, giving an important contribution to the cooperation.