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Polar bears, spy stations and Lenin: life on the Norwegian island in Putin’s sights
In Norway’s high Arctic lies a place where the currency is roubles, television beams in programmes from Russia and a stone-faced Lenin watches over the harbour. This is Barentsburg, a Russian coalmining town 1,647 miles from Moscow, that has operated on …
Source:
The Times
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