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Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of Þorrablót, an Icelandic mid-winter feast. In the past there was no fresh food available at this time of year so people ate dried fish, smoked lamb, putrefied shark and soured blood and liver pudding along with other soured meat products—ram testicles included.
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Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.
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Former Prime Minister of Iceland Geir H. Haarde declared his innocence before the High Court (Landsdómur) yesterday when the Icelandic parliament Althingi’s case against him for misconduct in office in the lead-up to the banking collapse in 2008 opened.
Geir H. Haarde. Copyright: Icelandic Photo Agency.
Haarde said on RÚV’s news magazine Kastljós last night that he intends to appeal the High Court case before the European Court of Human Rights if he loses it on grounds of which he is not content.
During the hearings, Haarde’s attorney Andri Árnason demanded that eight of the High Court’s judges step down—all of the judges appointed by Althingi—due to doubt that they can rule objectively in this case, ruv.is reports.
Haarde is accused of violating the laws of ministerial responsibility and he dismisses all six items of the charge against him. The charge is based on a parliamentary resolution which was approved at Althingi in the autumn of 2010.
The trial was attended by a number of journalists and Haarde’s family in addition to the court’s employees. At the opening of the court, Haarde’s first move was to shake hands with Althingi’s prosecutor, Sigrídur Fridjónsdóttir.
Click here to read more about this case.
A Playboy model, Progressive Party in trouble and a bad hair day.
Seven companies have asked to be listed on the NASDAQ OMX in Reykjavík, in one of the biggest privatization plans in the country’s history. All seven companies are owned, at least in part, by Landsbanki Íslands, which the Government of Iceland owns 81 percent.
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Landsvirkjun accounts for 75 percent of total electricity production in Iceland; in the year 2010 production reached 12,625 GWh. Climate change and the resulting increase in temperatures are expected to lead to a significant increase in the flow of glacial rivers in the years to come.
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The Special Prosecutors’ Office has filed charges in the so-called Al-Thani case, which pertains to the purchase of a five percent share in Kaupthing Bank in late September 2008, merely two weeks before the banking system’s collapse.
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The current issue of the quarterly magazine Iceland Review includes for example an interview with world-renowned fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir as well as features on the successful biotech company ORF Genetics and the hot debate regarding the EU. If you subscribe now, you will receive a photo book by IR editor, photographer Páll Stefánsson of the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull as a gift. Click here to subscribe to the magazine and here to buy a gift subscription.
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The second series of The Press continues to follow the life of journalist, mother and wife Lára and her investigation of Iceland’s underground world.
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Harvesting human-like protein from genetically modified barley, Icelandic company ORF Genetics is revolutionizing the world of green biotechnology. With Iceland’s First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff and Hollywood stars among its loyal fans, the company’s phenomenal skincare range has, quite literally, changed the face of the cosmetics industry.
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The international recognition that the architecture firm Snøhetta has received is quite unique in a Norwegian context.
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