is a political scientist and senior researcher and at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR). His research concentrates on political and administrative processes in Russian and East European countries. He is currently the leader of a three-year international project on welfare reforms and political mobilisation in Russia. Vadim Kononenko currently works at the European Parliament's directorate general for external policies. His previous employment was with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs where he conducted research on governance in Russia, particularly in the field of energy policies. He is a co-editor of Russia as a Network State. What works in Russia when state institutions do not? Palgrave 2011. Asbjørn Røiseland is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) and professor in political science at University of Nordland. His main research interests are local and regional governance and democracy, including network governance and partnerships. Among his research projects are several comparative studies, including comparative studies of local governance in Canada, Russia, and Norway.

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Ine Eriksen Søreide var utenriksminister i fire av de sju årene som gikk mellom den russiske annekteringen av Krym i 2014 og invasjonen av Ukraina i 2022. Hun måtte utforme den norske balansegangen mellom avvisning og imøtekommenhet under nokså andre forhold enn forgjengerne. Til tross for sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer, en fra norsk side lite ønskelig innenrikspolitisk utvikling og en del kontroversielle hendelser, ble kontaktene mellom de to landene gradvis mer likt det det hadde vært før 2014. Dette var noe Søreide selv ønsket å framheve da hun fratrådte stillingen i 2021. Abstract in EnglishNorway’s Russia Policy under SøreideIne Eriksen Søreide was Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs during four of the seven years between the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. She had to develop the traditional Norwegian balancing act between rejection and accommodation under different conditions than those of her predecessors. Despite security challenges, worrying political developments internally in Russia and quite a few controversial incidents, the contact between the two countries gradually became more similar to what it had been before 2014. Søreide herself emphasised this when she resigned in 2021.

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