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Russia on Svalbard

UNIS hosts lecture on Russia and security politics in the Arctic

Monday 28 September

Møysalen, UNIS (the University Centre in Svalbard)

From 18:00 to 20:00 (UTC+2)

UNIS (the University Centre in Svalbard) will look into the topic Security Politics: Russia in the Arctic in the lecture, together with Professor Kari Aga Myklebost, in the evening in Møysalen.

The lecture is part of a pilot project at UNIS, but is open to anyone. It will be given in English.

About the presenter: Kari Aga Myklebost is a Norwegian Professor of Russian History at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She works on security policy and Russia's role in the Arctic, with a particular focus on Russian politics of history, information operations, and hybrid tactics in the High North.