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The Justice Ministry in Moscow has included reporter Georgii Chentemirov, who came to the Barents Observer last fall, on its register of so-called “foreign agents”.

The human rights organisation is accused of "extremist" activities and for "rehabilitation of Nazism."

The Barents Observer teams up with UiT The Arctic University of Norway in a project on exile journalism and knowledge development in the borderland between Norway and Russia

Chief draft officer Andrei Artemiev does not like Olga Tuzhikova's human rights activities. Tuzhikova, a member of the Petrozavodsk City Council, is trying to help mobilized and volunteer soldiers to return home.

A court ruling places Olesya Krivtsova under house arrest until her trial comes up.

“We all feel very sorry,” says Anna Kireeva, head of Barents Press Russia. Established 30 years ago, the journalist network today finds cross-border cooperation too risky to be continued.

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The three experienced reporters have left Russia and Ukraine, and now continue their independent journalism in Kirkenes, Norway.

The forced liquidation of the human rights organization is a major setback for the country and increases the risk of total repression, lawyer Maria Eismont said in her defense of the NGO that over more than 30 years has revealed Soviet-era crimes.

Yury Dmitriyev is renowned for his work that shed light on Soviet-era political repressions in his home region Karelia.