Europe's Arctic adventure - 'It was the Red Army that liberated the north, you know.'

In a four-part series, the EUobserver heads to the Arctic - the very top of Europe - and speaks to oil company executives, environmentalists, government ministers, bio-chemists, engineers, geo-politics experts and the bright young things that are heading to the region ahead of the new ‘Cold Rush' - the bonanza of resource development that is just beginning to take off in this stark, fragile region. In the third part, we speak to geo-politics experts, entrepreneurs and the Norwegian foreign...