About us

The Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad was opened on the 14^th of September, 2006. The opening ceremony took place in the Museum of the World Ocean.

The Office represents the Nordic Council of Ministers, which is the forum for Nordic governmental cooperation. This forum unites Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, including the autonomous areas of the Faeroe Islands, Greenland and Åland.

The Nordic Council of Ministers consists of 11 ministerial councils, which meet regularly. Daily work is carried out by the Secretariat in Copenhagen (Denmark), which has branches - the Information offices in Kaliningrad, St.Petersburg and three Baltic countries - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Nordic InfoPoins are also located in Petrozavodsk, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.

The Nordic Council of Ministers operates in close relationship with the Nordic Council, the cooperation forum of the Nordic parliaments.

In 2009 the Nordic Council of Ministers was chaired by Iceland.

Edited September 2009

News

14/05/2010

Nordic interest in Russia

15 MPs from the Nordic Council are heading for the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions of Russia on 16 May. The politicians will meet their Russian colleagues and learn more about the challenges facing the two Russian regions.

Sinikka Bohlin,
photo - Magnus Fröderberg/norden.org
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16/04/2010

Study visit to Denmark

A group of specialists from 9 municipalities of the Kaliningrad region is leaving for Denmark on 17 April 2010 to visit 6 Danish municipalities and to study experiences of Nordic countries on business development issues, municipal support of entrepreneurs, public-private partnership and companies’ staff upgrading.

photo - Nikolaj Bock, www.norden.org
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26/03/2010

Attitudes are what have to change in order for accessibility to be achieved

There is a great deal of interest among the Russian and Baltic participants on the course in Universal Design that begun on Monday at the Nordic School of Public Health (NHV). The discussions during lectures are lively and questions posed many from participants representing various sectors and agencies.
– The problem is to change attitudes so that those working for public institutions accept that these should be accessible for all, rather than it being an issue of lack of funding, says Andrey Zonin, Director for the Institute for Cultural Programs in St. Petersburg.
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