Arctic Euphoria and International High North Politics by Geir Hønneland
Author:Geir Hønneland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore
In Autumn 2012, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) accused Ivan Moseev of working with Norwegian intelligence to destabilize Arkhangelsk socially and politically, a charge carrying a 20-year sentence. 23 Accusations of high treason were dropped when the case came to court, but he was charged with incitement to ethnic hatred. The reason seemed to be that Moseev was believed by FSB to have posted a piece on a newspaper website where he referred to Russians as âscumâ. According to the editor of the website, the comment had been sent from Moseevâs IP address, which Moseev denied. A group of Russian patriots gathered outside the court carrying banners accusing Pomors of being separatists and traitors of Russiaâs national interests. One of them asked, âIs Arkhangelsk oblast the big, sovereign Russian North or Norwayâs Pomor colony?â Another urged people to âSay NO to Pomor fairy-tales in Norwegian orchestration!â
Two years before, a book called Pomor Fairy-Tales had been published in Norwegian and Russian, financed by the Norwegian Barents Secretariatâfree copies were distributed to schools in Northern Norway and North-Western Russia . Around the time of Moseevâs trial, the book suddenly attracted the attention of the media. In an article that spends some time ridiculing the bookâs attempts to adapt modern Russian to âPomor styleâ, its author speaks of the publication as âa NorwegianâAmerican attempt at destroying the Russian ethnosâ; the message transmitted to Russian schoolchildren is, âBe a Pomor â that is, DONâT BE RUSSIANâ. 24 Another articleâentitled ââPomor hysteriaâ: When will Norway ânegotiate with the Pomorsâ, and not with the Russians?â 25 âcalls the fairy-tale book âpropagandaâ whose purpose is to âdefend Norwegian interests [â¦] against the interests of the Russian people and the Russian stateâ. Moseev is referred to as a âperpetual activist, with no constructive work to his name, no real [standards of] professionalism, a noisy person who loves the [sound of] loud words of the âcivil society organizationsââ. The author quite correctly observes that the word Pomor is used differently in Norwegian and Russian, a result, he explains, either of Norwegiansâ ignorance of the wordâs real meaning, or as a determined effort by Norway to create chaos in Russia in order get hold of Russiaâs natural resources. Norwegian attempts to âcreate a positive northern identityâ necessarily imply a perception of âtraditional Russian identity [as] something ânegativeââ.
Yet another article attacks the premises of the entire enterpriseâboth the fairy-tale book and Barents regional cooperation as suchâwhich is reflected in the bookâs foreword, where the Barents Region is portrayed as the âcommon homeâ of Norwegian and Russian Northerners. 26 The Barents region, the author argues, is not a historical region; the concept was invented by Norwegians for political ends (and not very benign ends either). Northern Norway and North-Western Russia are united âartificiallyâ in a regional structure to promote collaboration. The claim that Northerners on both sides of the border are fundamentally similar is a lie and an insult to the North-West Russian population: Northern Norway is the âutmost peripheryâ of
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