In July 2010, Alex Shiriaieff, Anastassia Jakonjuk and cameraman Sergei Pashkov, did an interwiev with Thorvald Stoltenberg in Vardø in the county of Finnmark in Norway. Thorvald Stoltenberg is the former foreign minister of Norway, and are called the father of cooperation between the countries in the Barents region. Videoproduction is funded by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat in Kirkenes, Norway.