Editing The Arctic University of Norway (section)

==History==
===Mergers===
On 1 January 2009, the University of Tromsø merged with [[Tromsø University College]]. The college's teacher education department (the descendant of the Tromsø Seminarium first established in 1848) became part of the university's department of education and pedagogy. On 1 August 2013, the university merged with [[Finnmark University College]] to form ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet'' (The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway), thereby adding campuses in [[Alta (town)|Alta]], [[Hammerfest (town)|Hammerfest]], and [[Kirkenes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/smk/aktuelt/offstatsraad/2013/offisielt-fra-statsrad-15-februar-2013.html?id=714559 |title=Offisielt fra statsråd 15. Februar 2013 - regjeringen.no |website=www.regjeringen.no |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509195114/http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/smk/aktuelt/offstatsraad/2013/offisielt-fra-statsrad-15-februar-2013.html?id=714559 |archive-date=9 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On 1 January 2016, [[Narvik University College]] and [[Harstad University College]] merged with UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. As of September 2024 the university has eleven campus locations in northern Norway, the main campus being [[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]].

===Spy case in 2022===
{{Main|Mikhail Valerijevitsj Mikusjin}}
In October 2022 a guest researcher at UiT was arrested by the [[Norwegian Police Security Service]] and charged with espionage against Norway. The researcher posed as a Brazilian researcher named José Assis Giammaria, but later revealed that he is a Russian citizen by the name Mikhail Valerijevitsj Mikusjin.

Mikusjin is a suspected [[Clandestine cell system|illegalist]] who worked for the Russian intelligence service [[GRU (Russian Federation)|GRU]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Skeie |first1=Torgeir |title=PST ferdig med etterforskning av spionsiktet gjesteforsker på UiT |url=https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/pst-ferdig-med-etterforskning-av-spionsiktet-gjesteforsker-pa-uit-1.16853851 |publisher=NRK |access-date=23 April 2024 |language=Norwegian}}</ref>