The joint monitoring committee session of the Kolarctic ENPI CBC 2007-2013 and the joint program committee of the Kolarctic 2014-2020 took place in Oslo. Murmansk region delegation was headed up by Mr. Alexey Tyukavin, first vice-governor of the region. Mr. Tyukavin held a series of meetings with Russia’s Ambassador to Norway Mr. Vyacheslav Pavlovsky and Ms. Tamara Chernysheva, the trade representative of Russia in Norway. During the session of the program committee Kolarctic 2014-2020 a list of large-scale infrastructural projects was approved. Among 7 there are 3 initiatives in the list offered by the Murmansk region (renovation of the roads to Lotta and Salla border checking points and renovation of Lotta border checking point).