KANDALAKSHA. Russia is going through a period of fast modernization. New shopping centres, skyscrapers in big towns and self-service [...]

KANDALAKSHA. Dance education for children has been common and widespread in Russia since the Soviet times. At an early age [...]

MURMANSK. The noble art of armchair travelling is both comfortable and practical. The vehicle is often a travel book, and the [...]

LONDON. Brazilian-born Sebastiao Salgado is one of world’s most famous photographers. Since the 1970′s he has been working on issues like [...]

SYKTYVKAR. Ethnofuturists is an art movement that has spread in northwest Russia and Estonia after the perestroyka. With the collapse [...]

SYKTYVKAR. The Komi Republic has a rich and vivid folklore, a tradition that also has strong support from authorities and [...]

NARYAN MAR. The circumpolar conference “With love to the Arctic” will be held in the Nenets capital 27/2 – 1/3. [...]

NARYAN MAR. The Nenets capital Naryan Mar has changed dramatically over the last 5-10 years. Today, the centre is full [...]

ARKHANGELSK. It’s finally here – the fourth volume of the Pomor Encyclopedia, totally devoted to culture in the Arkhangelsk Region. [...]

NARYAN MAR. The northern region Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) has almost no roads. The main part of the vast territory [...]

NARYAN MAR. Ten years ago Irina Kotkina worked as a librarian at a boarding school in Nenets. She felt that [...]

SYKTYVKAR. Skilled handicraft can be found in many places and environments. The belts around our waists are such objects, where [...]

ROVANIEMI / NANAI. Lindza Beldy, a Nanai woman from the Russian Far East, was a known healer from the  Wild [...]

VELIKI USTYUG. The small town of Veliki Ustyug is located in the north-eastern corner of Vologda Region, just south of [...]

ROVANIEMI. – We can’t learn skills from indigenous peoples. But more about life attitudes, mobility, flexibility. A relaxed attitude. Freedom. [...]

SYKTYVKAR. The Komi Republic, in the easternmost corner of the Barents Region, has two official languages:  Komi language (belonging to [...]

MURMANSK. The annual tv- and documentary film festival “Northern Character ” was held in Murmansk this week. Around 100 tv-programs [...]

HAPARANDA. Today, Wednesday, the meeting of the Arctic Council’s senior officials starts in Haparanda. But the chair of one of [...]

ARKHANGELSK. The Russian security service FSB charges Ivan Moseev, leader of the Pomor Institute of Indigenous Peoples of the North [...]

KARGOPOL. What has Communism meant to people in the small town of Kargopol, southern Arkhangelsk region? This is the theme [...]

PETROZAVODSK. The music scene in the Karelian Republic is vivid and manyfolded. Folk group Myllärit and rockers Santu Karhu & [...]

ARKHANGELSK. The annual jazz festival in Arkhangelsk is a must, an important meeting place for culture-minded people in the Pomor [...]

NARYAN MAR/SOLOVETKY ISLANDS. This weekend the festival “Polar Watercolour” takes place in the northern town of Naryan Mar, Nenets Automous [...]

ROVANIEMI. There are travellers, and there are travellers. When Pasi Pikkupeura goes to Russia, he will probably not lie on [...]

MURMANSK. – This town is like a kaleidoscope, changing all the time, people move in and out. Writer Dmitry Korzhov [...]

DIKSON. With a warming climate and less sea ice in the north, the Northern Sea Route [also called North East [...]

SYKTYVKAR. A book is a book. On the Internet you can find enormous amounts of information. But the form and [...]

ARKHANGELSK.  If you talk with people about the music of Arkhangelsk you will quite soon run into the name Tim [...]

ROVANIEMI. Interested in the North and the Arctic? In Rovaniemi there is a goldmine waiting for you – 35 000 [...]

ARKHANGELSK. How does the North effect people living here, their mindsets, world view, mental map, ethnical self consciousness? Is the [...]

ONEGA. There are books that make you happy. The Russian “Не век жить- век вспоминать: народная культура Поонежья и Онежского” [...]

HAPARANDA-ARKHANGELSK. Get out on the roads! Feel the smells, see the landscapes, meet the people! In July BarentsCulture editor Kenneth [...]

BARENTS REGION. The bicycle invention has been praised by many. Radio reporter Eric Sandström (1910 – 1992) produced Sweden’s bicycle [...]

ARKHANGELSK. Arkhangelsk students recently returned from an eventful 40 day cruise in the High North. As part of the program [...]

ARKHANGELSK. We don’t know very much about the literature of our neighbours in the Barents Region. The standard introduction is [...]

KARGOPOL. In the southern part of Arkhangelsk Region there are some old small towns worth visiting. Kargopol, with its old [...]

SOLVYCHEGODSK. Famous Russian writer and philosoper Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (1803 – 1863) worked for the government of the Russian Empire [...]

ARKHANGELSK. In 2001, the first volume was issued. The editor in chief,  Vladimir Bulatov, handed me a copy of “The [...]

  CHUPA. At Midsummer, the 3rd White Noise festival was held in Chupa, on the White Sea Coast of the [...]

VIA. There are no roads leading to Via, in the eastern corner of Arkhangelsk Region. Driver “Schumacher” drives his big [...]

CHUPA. The Summer Solstice, or plainly Mid-Summer is since ancient times celebrated on the Northern Hemisphere. The longest day of [...]

                        ARKHANGELSK. The All-Russian/International theatre festival named after Fyodor [...]

RUSSIA. Banya – the traditional Russian sauna – is an important culture factor in the north. There are some differences [...]

KONOSHA. In 1964-65 the young poet Joseph Brodsky was exiled to village Norenskaya, outside railway junction Konosha in the south-western [...]

ARKHANGELSK. Since 1990, summers in Arkhangelsk has meant the most unexpected encounters in streets, parks, at the embankment, marketplaces and [...]

PETROZAVODSK. Woodcutting of eucalyptus in China, biking through Europe and climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic are among the [...]

MURMANSK. Norwegian electro pop diva Sandra Kolstad is coming. Her colleague Mujuice from Moscow will be there, too. Finnish writer [...]

IZHMA. – We want the status of a small indigenous people, but our Komi Republic leaders have to ask for [...]

NARYAN MAR. Russia’s classical and most famous snowmobiles are called “Buran”, which means snowstorm. On Saturday 24th of March the [...]

PETROZAVODSK. Today is World Poetry Day. One of many celebrations will be held in Petrozavodsk, at the Center of National [...]

  ARKHANGELSK. Among the public saunas in Arkhangelsk, the Izhemskaya banya is the only one that has a wood-heated stove. [...]