The Russian Prosecutor General's Office is classifying the Barents Secretariat as an "undesirable organisation" arguing it stimulates protest activities and promotes LGBT communities.

Crazy stuff: A new 🇷🇺 law allows the use of soldiers "to protect Russian citizens in the event of their arrest, criminal prosecution, or other prosecution by foreign courts." rg.ru/2026/03/10/a...

Russia provides Iran with intelligence to target U.S. forces. Trump grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war.

Important observations by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine: Repression Against Researchers Undermines Russia’s Position in the Arctic. szru.gov.ua/en/news-medi...

Journalism is one of few things that scares Putin.

There are currently 3 NATO surveillance aircraft heading north and along Russia's border. 1) 🇸🇪 Gulfstream 4 2) NATO Boeing E-3B Sentry AWACS 3) 🇬🇧 RC-135W Rivet Joint The AWSCS was just refuelled over 🇫🇮. Something interesting is in the air...

"Climate change and increased access to the Arctic Ocean will create a strategic security dilemma between NATO and Russia, as well as the United States and China ... the faultline between Russia and NATO will become more and more visible." @tomyulsman.bsky.social time.com/7380037/arct...

Det Espen Barth Eide her sier til VG viser med all tydelighet hvor lite han forstår av måten Moskva i årene etter 2014 fullstendig ga blaffen i oppfølging av vedtak i Menneskerettsdomstolen i Strasbourg.

One business doing very well in Russia: Funerals. Turnover in the sector rose 7.7% in 2024 to 108.3 billion rubles (€1.2 billion) and increased by a further 12.7% from January to April 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, according to The Insider. theins.ru/obshestvo/28...

Putin is making Russia small again: ”Our model suggests that Russian casualties are now between 1.1m and 1.4m, of whom 230,000-430,000 are dead. That would mean one in 25 Russian men between the ages of 18 and 49 may have been killed or severely wounded since the start of the full-scale war.”

🔺Northern Fleet Air activity A Russian Navy NFAF probable Il-38N MPA concluded a 90-minute probable range support sortie in the Barents Sea, AM 25 February 2026. ⚠️Aircraft highly likely supported Naval ASuW live fire exercise activity. @thelookout.bsky.social @thomasnilsen.bsky.social

Kirkenes marks 4 years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Semyon Kravchenko returned from 🇳🇴 to 🇷🇺 in the north. At Borisoglebsk checkpoint he was beaten after FSB officers found "evidence of support to Ukraine" on his mobile phone. Today he serves a 14-year jail sentence.

Russia's Consulate General in Kirkenes arranged "consular services day" in Bodø and has posted this photo. WTF does the St. George’s ribbon (on the table) has to do with "consular services? This is pure evil war propaganda in northern Norway.

Cool to be quoted in the great TIME story by Tom Yulsman. The topic, though, is pretty serious and not cool at all 🇷🇺☢️🚀❄️.

Islands statsminister har den tillit til eget folk som Støre mangler.

Kirkenes. 20/2-2026.

This 🇺🇸 nuclear sniffer (WC-135 Constant Phoenix) has been collecting samples over the eastern Barents Sea for more 7 hours today. What’s blowing in the air? ☢️

Two years ago, Alexei Navalny was barbarically murdered with poison by FSB in a north Ural prison camp. Russia is a state run by criminals, and the 🇷🇺 Consulate General here in Kirkenes represents those killers. Photo from tonight’s event across the street.

February 16th. Murdered with nerve agents by the FSB. Here from outside 🇷🇺 consulate in Kirkenes 🇳🇴.

Classic Zelenskyy: "We can also give ceasefire for Russians if they will do elections in Russia."😏🤌

PM Frederiksen: We have to recognize,we have to learn that Russia will not change&they aren’t interested in peace, unfortunately I mean,it's like minus 25 °C &then you attack the energy system.I mean,it's so crazy that only Russians would do such a thing.But this’s how Russia is&it will not change

🇺🇸 Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plane here in Munich. His next two stops are Hungary and Slovakia. No coincidence, no surprise…

Seems like a direct hit that deeply will trouble Lukoil’s northern oil production.

Good news from 🇨🇳: Solar power output increased by 43% year-on-year and wind by 14%, helping push down coal generation by 1.9%

❗️Just now, 🇺🇦Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked the 🇷🇺Lukoil-Ukhtanefpereработка oil refinery in the city of Ukhta, Komi Republic. The distance from the Ukrainian border is more than 2000 km.

Here we go. The most popular social media channel within 🇷🇺 is now targeted. Because freedom of communication is the Kremlin’s biggest enemy.

Probably the most meaningless eye-catching advertising in Berlin.

Please all good people, Ukraine needs urgent support.

Cartoon by Gatis Šļūka

Tu-95MS bombers from Olenya airbase on the Kola Peninsula have this morning again contributed to war crimes by attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure. 14 of 21 Kh-101 cruise missiles were shot down, according to the Ukrainian air force. We need to give 🇺🇦 more air defence. Now. Today.

Unsurprisingly, Europeans seem to prefer more unity, not less. As usual, it’s better to hang together than all hang separately. #geopolitics #europe www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Potentially, Russia could add dozens of nuclear warheads to Bulava and Sineva missiles within a few weeks at the Northern Fleet's nuclear support facilities in Gadzhiyevo and Okolnaya (near Severomorsk).

President Zelenskyy: "In fact,the Russian army used the American proposal for a short-term pause in strikes not to support diplomacy,but simply to stockpile missiles&wait for the coldest days of the year” 📷Destruction at one of Ukraine’s thermal power plants following a Russian strike/Radio Liberty

The Murman Seafood owned trawler Melkart-3 continues to sail back-and-forth - but not directly over - the Svalbard Undersea Cable System (pink) for the third second week in a row. No other fishing vessels anywhere near along the west coast of Spitsbergen. Which catch is it looking for?

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

After 3 years working under Putin’s missiles and drones as our Ambassador to Ukraine, I resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. The America I proudly served for 28 years does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. But the Trump Admin keeps doing exactly that. 1/3

When the White House turns to be the Clown House... Trump hangs picture of himself with Putin. (Source Elizabeth Landers on x.com/ElizLanders/...)

Significant: Electric cars outsold traditional gas-powered passenger vehicles for the first time in Europe in December of last year. Cold climate regions had the highest share of EVs. Norway on top with 97,6 % of all new cars being battery-powered. insideevs.com/news/785541/...

"My thoughts go to all the people in Ukraine, who are in such a terrible situation," Norway's Princess Ingrid Alexandra said as she traveled to Kirkenes, the Norwegian town located near the border with Russia

Hvorfor bruker statsminister Støre og Regjering fortsatt den høyst kontroversielle sosiale medieplattformen X?

While Trump continues to insult NATO allies and undermine Arctic security, the 🇺🇸 Navy tonight flies a P-8 Poseidon mission over the #BarentsSea north of Kirkenes/Murmansk, tracking 🇷🇺 ☢️ subs.

What a good start of the year for 🇷🇺 S-300/400. Didn't shoot down a single aircraft during the Maduro raid in 🇻🇪 and now hitting own residential building. Guess it will be a rough year for Rosoboronexport 😁. Close the windows and don't drink tea ...

"What I'm asking for is a piece of ice" He's nuts.

Men Jonas da, du vet jo godt at deler av Russlands taktiske atomvåpen på Kolahalvøya rettes mot norske baser i Nordflåteøvelser og krigsplanlegging. ☢️🚀

Of course Trump invited Putin and not Zelenskyy.

Important not to forget the importance of boosting support to Ukraine amid Trump’s maddest threat.

Den 🇩🇰 avisen Børsen har denne helgen publisert en lengre artikkel om Barents Observer. Hvordan vi norske og eksil-russiske journalister i fellesskap utfordrer Putin-regimets repressive sensur. Uavhengig journalistikk utgjør en forskjell. (Bak betalingsmur).