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Through four seminars in the Barents Region, Norwegian and Russian representatives from health care, the police, the judicial system, organizations working with state compensation to victims of violence and crisis centers exchanged knowledge and discussed their experience from their respective work fields. Major differences between the systems of the two countries as well as similar challenges were discussed. While in both countries there is legislation against domestic violence, there are big differences in the way it is carried out in practice. Suggestions for further projects were made. The Russian partners expressed a need for new projects with a practical focus on how to utilize and implement the existing Russian legislation related to domestic violence. They also identified the police and the court as central areas for new projects. The possibility of trying out the Swedish arrangement of a crime victim fund was also suggested. The project ran from August 2010 to August 2011.