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The Russian Arctic Circle port city of Murmansk on August 2, 2017. The Russian Supreme Court on May 25, 2018, upheld a travel ban on a Norwegian journalist. (Maxim Zmeyev/AFP)

Russian Supreme Court upholds travel ban on Norwegian journalist

June 1, 2018 4:08 PM EDT

Russia’s Supreme Court on May 25, 2018, upheld a December 4, 2017, decision of a Moscow city court to bar Norwegian journalist Thomas Nilsen from traveling to Russia for five years, according to media reports.