The accession of Norway to the sanctions against Russia was a mistake, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, he wrote about it in his own microblog on Twitter. "If salmon could speak, she would explain to his countrymen the folly of their accession to the sanctions," - said Rogozin. before the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation expressed on the accession of Norway to the anti-Russian EU sanctions. This step Oslo "with negative consequences for Russian-Norwegian relations" and "leads to distorted perception of the realities of our Norwegian neighbours," said the official representative of the Ministry. The Norwegian side is negative on the visit of Dmitry Rogozin of the Spitsbergen archipelago. Russian Deputy Prime Minister during his visit to the North pole came to the Russian village of Barentsburg on Svalbard and at present there company Arktikugol. Spitsbergen, or Svalbard (norw.), - a vast archipelago located in the Arctic ocean is the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway. Its administrative center is the town of Longyearbyen. In addition to Norway to conduct business activity in the archipelago, Russia. On the island of Spitsbergen lies the Russian settlement - the settlement of Barentsburg, and canned towns Pyramid and Grumant. Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List of the USA. The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news