OSLO, Sept 4 - Norway will provide necessary assistance to Russians in the Arctic Svalbard islands following the arrest of a ship transporting passengers and supplies to the archipelago, the Nordic country's foreign ministry said on Friday. A Norwegian court this week ordered the seizure in Svalbar»»»

Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian ship in the Arctic on behalf of a Ukrainian energy company. Officials said the vessel, the Professor Molchanov, was seized late on Wednesday in Barentsburg, a coal mining settlement that Russia operates on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard unde»»»