Security for the High North, How Did We Get Here? Op-ed: The High North is a unique region with many of its own issues. Nothing is more important than security to a free and prosperous people. However, every day brings more disturbing news about possible threats to our area, writes US Army Veteran Mike Thornton in the first in a series of op-eds to help make sense of a changing world and defense posture.
The War That Never Ends Eight of his relatives were sent to the frontline and disappeared. 75 years after the end of WW2, volunteers like Aleksandr Feduhin (61) still work on digging out fallen soldiers from the bloody battles at the Litsa front.
Norway Commemorating the Dark History of the Partisans - Government Representatives Will Not Attend A history conference in Kirkenes is to highlight Norwegian partisan history and the Soviet liberation of eastern Finnmark. However, not one single representative from the Norwegian government has found the time to attend. – One can only speculate as to why, says County Mayor Ragnhild Vassvik of Finnmark County.
Orphaned, hungry, and cold: Russia’s War Children Are the Last Witnesses of A Man-Made Tragedy Time witnesses from the Soviet Union’s great patriotic war are about to die out. However, those who remain now warn of the disastrous and inhumane consequences a new war would have.
