Russian did not come, all is lost!

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About Kirkenes to Murmansk said - Russian city, where even the street names and price tags in stores in two languages. Every weekend, its population doubled: 3.5 thousands of local newcomers grow from the Kola Peninsula. Our riding for tourism and shopping. Issue price was low - a thousand rubles for a ticket on the bus there and back, the road - just three hours. Once a month, the central square of the Scandinavians unfolded Russian market. Zapolyarny grandmother brought a bag of knitting socks, mittens, dolls and even the Soviet crystal. Now the streets of silence, the bazaar was closed.
Murmansk merchandised stores in Kirkenes, as if he did not leave abroad, as in a normal home hypermarket - dial a full truck. The most popular cheap shrimp, coffee and ... diapers. Comes to shove - Scandinavian big-breasted mother closed the last package of visitors. The scandal has come to the authorities: stop lawlessness, diaper their babies is not enough! Stores had to impose restrictions: Russian issued two packages in one hand.
Now, sellers do not know what to do with goods.
- Although the sale satisfied - waved to the full series of diapers seller frontier supermarket «Rema1000». - For a week or one package Russian did not sell.
Kirkenes was full of Russian fishermen. Shipyards of the port city of "incarcerated" under our ships. According to estimates Rosrybolovstva last year trawlers, who repaired in Norwegian ports were more 120. This year's figures are not yet incited, but it is clear - will miss at least half. In one of the largest shipyards, "Kimek", all three of our ship. Among fear that orders "a la Russe" will not be at all, then you have to lay off workers en masse.
Customs office Storskog. Beginning in 2014. A line of cars and buses with tourists for half a day.
- To conclude a contract for less than 30 percent - admitted the director of "Kimek" domestiques Mannsverk. - Now, many joint projects are stopped, and that's too bad! Our border town of Kirkenes as a beacon, look - without Russian city seemed deserted.
- Russian lost! This is a problem - grieving Cecilia Hansen, mayor of the commune Sør-Varanger, the capital of which is Kirkenes. - And then there's Russia in response to the statements of our officials imposed a ban on imports of Norwegian fish ...
Where to now sell the famous salmon? After all, almost 90% of this type of salmon in Russia were from the country of fjords. Norwegian Council for seafood said that the export of fish in our country has decreased by half, producers incur losses. We were the main buyers of trout. Some of this gap closed, reoriented to Japan and Belarus. With herring really bad - nobody wants to buy is not ...
Slightly brightened Kirkenes in February - thanks to the "Barents spectacle." The festival gathered 10 thousand people, this time only a handful - three thousand. Hoteliers roar - hotels empty.
- Russian did not come, all is lost! - For the umpteenth time we heard from the Norwegians.
The most respectable event of the festival - Kirkenes Conference. Politicians, economists and officials are not talking about a bright future, as usual. Previously prosperous economy Norway due depreciating oil and the falling rate of the crown is bursting at the seams. And here also hurt themselves - yielding to the entreaties of the European Union, the Iron Curtain descended from Russia.
PS In Murmansk we returned through quite empty checkpoint. About the only reminded of past traffic jams poster with the scheme of the new checkpoint. Another joint project Rosgranitsa and the Norwegian authorities, which had to be abandoned.