Consulate General Norway in Murmansk stops the work

Moscow, on July 1 - newspaper "Argumenty i fakty". The Consulate General Norway in Murmansk stops the work since July 1, transfers Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Scandinavian country reported about diplomatic mission closing on June 8. In department then called it a temporary measure, having promised that consulate will open, "when the situation will allow". Turning of Cross-Border Cooperation Programmes and joint projects Norway and Russian Federation is called the reason of closing. Let's add, the Russian demand for the admission of freights for settlements on Spitsbergen was rejected by the Norwegian party. The vice speaker Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev declared that the authorities Norway...