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Hi everyone! This post is about some more recent activities: visiting the more Russian side of Svalbard. On the 31st of March, we took another snowmobile trip, this time to Barentsburg, the biggest Russian city on the island. We went there for our Environmental Management course, in order to see what the Russian view of the management of Svalbard is. The original plan...

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