The Embassy will be closed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 3-5 April while it is being moved back to it´s former premises on Khlebnyi per. 28, which have been renovated. It will be open for business again on Monday 8 April.

On 20-21 March the Ambassador and his wife, Ása Baldvinsdóttir, had meetings with senior officials in Saint Petersburg and in the administration of the Leningrad region to discuss relations between Iceland and the Russian Federation and to introduce Icelandair, who will begin scheduled flights to Pulkova airport on 1st of June.

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The Ambassador and his wife visited the State Polar Academy in Saint Petersburg on 19 March.

This Wednesday, 13 March, the popular Icelandic Music Group Gus Gus will be performing at Club Milk in Moscow.

Sales of specially prepared quality products of Icelandic lamb meat into the demanding upper-scale Russian market has increased steadily the past three years since the Icelandic food producers SS and KS started participating in the annual ProdExpo Food Exhibition in Moscow. Along with quality cuts of mutton and horse meat, the total export has almost quadruplicated.

The EFTA Court ruling on Icesave rejected all claims by the EFTA Surveillance Authority that Iceland should be declared in breach of the EEA Agreement. The Court rejected the claim that Iceland has breached the Deposit Guarantee Directive or has discriminated against depositors contrary to EEA law. It is a considerable satisfaction that Iceland´s defence has won the day in the Icesave case; the EFTA Court ruling brings to a close an important stage in a long saga.

Both Icelandair and the Russian airline Transaero are planning direct flights between Iceland and Russia in 2013.

The Ambassador met on 14 November with Mr. Anton Iniytscin, Deputy Minister for Energy, to to discuss the cooperation between Iceland and Russia in energy and ways in which it can be enhanced and further developed.

The Ambassador visited Krasnodar on 12 November with representatives of Loftleidir-Icelandic and Marel for meetings about aviation and food processing.

CCP, the Icelandic video game developer and publisher took part in Igromir 2012 video game exhibition in Moscow at the beginning of October.

The Icelandic gropu Árstíðir played for an audience of about 800 people at the Moscow International House of Music on 6 October.

The Iceland Club held a conference on 12 October about the great Icelandic author and Nobel laureate, Halldór Laxness, in celebration of his 110th birthday this year.

Össur Skarphéðinsson, Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, called for reform of the United Nations Security Council in his address to the UN General Assembly this weekend.

Stjarnan from Iceland lost 3-1 against fellow debutants FK Zorkiy in their second leg of the UEFA Women’s football Champions League round of 32 in Krasnogorsk in Russia on Thursday.

The Icelandic group Árstíðir (Seasons) is on tour in Russia on 2-6 October.

From 22 September to 23 October 2012, the Nordic Weeks will be traditionally taking place in St Petersburg

On 20 September the Russian tour operator Jazz Tours presented Iceland in word and film as a winter destination for tourists.

Representatives of five Icelandic fish exporters participated in World Food Moscow on 17-20 September.