Excerpt from cryopolitics.com
The Arctic is often perceived as a future military theatre. But while war rages to the south, it has become a safe haven for refugees from Ukraine and beyond.
To many, Norway is a resolutely northern country. Yet the country whose name means “the north way” in Old Norse is also an eastern country. Norway’s coastline, which looks like a child’s scribblings, stretches all the way around the top of the Scandinavian Peninsula to Russia, where, one could say, east meets east. Teetering on an island off the coastline’s very edge is its easternmost town, Vardø. Famously, it lies east of Istanbul and Saint Petersburg.