Category: Norway

After the end of the Cold War and the transition to a post-bipolar system, Norway’s participation in the processes of global internationalization and regional integration deepened. The previously dominant “Atlantic” direction of foreign policy has lost its defining role. The Norwegian policy – “basic” and “nuclear”, which declared the rejection of the deployment of foreign…

According to figures from 2008, an average Norwegian spends 2 hours and 22 minutes in front of the television screen on an average day. 1 hour and 20 minutes is used for radio listening, 49 minutes for print media (out of 27 minutes newspaper reading). The internet is used for 1 hour and 5 minutes…

Literature There was a close linguistic and literary communion between Norway and Iceland from the time of the country until about 1300. The ancient goddess and heroic poems may have taken their northern form in Norway but were first written down in Iceland in the 13th century (“The Elder Eddan”). The first Skalds were Norwegian,…

In May 1944, after other funeral events imposed by the Nazis, there were serious riots in Oslo when the service of labor was compulsorily imposed on the classes 1921, 1922 and 1923. But that was also the year in which the fate of the war changed. At the end of October the Russians arrived who…