Russia

Fafo has conducted several studies in northern and north-western Russia, in particular in the Murmansk region, as well as in St. Petersburg city and the Kaliningrad exclave. Projects have focused on development of living conditions during transition, and delivered documentation of social development in the regions surveyed. Fafo has also acted as technical consultants to surveys conducted by other institutions.

Projects

• Emerging Patterns of East-West Migration. Project description at the Research Council of Norway (external link)
• Prostitution, Gender and Migration. Project description at the Rokkansenteret (external link)
• Living Conditions on the Kola Peninsula (1992)
• Living Conditions in St. Petersburg (1992; publ by SOTECO, Russian only)
• Living Conditions in Moscow (1992; publ. by SOTECO, Russian only)
• The NORBALT Project: St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad (1994)
• Environment and Living Conditions on the Kola Peninsula (1997)
• Consultancy to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (1990, 1995, 1999)
• Evaluation of Norwegian trade union projects in Russia (2001)
• Health in the Barents Region (2001)

Researchers

Guri Tyldum, Researcher

May-Len Skilbrei, Managing Director

Line Eldring, Researcher

Annette Brunovskis, Researcher

Arne Grønningsæter, Researcher

Laura Mitchel, Researcher

Networks

May-Len Skilbrei serves on the management committee of the COST Action Remaking eastern borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe's eastern peripheries.

Fafo Østforum (in Norwegian)