Norway’s Finnmark brigade to boost Arctic border defense, reevaluate training limits
Norway’s new Finnmark Brigade will closely cooperate with Finnish forces and self-imposed restrictions on allied training along the border to
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Author: Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Ship suspected of sabotage is detained by Norwegian Coast Guard
This story is being updated The Silver Dania was on its way from St.Petersburg to Murmansk when it was halted by Coast
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New radars sharpen Russian air defense over northern Finland, Norway
For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is
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On eve of Trump’s presidency, Norway signed new space agreement with the US
The Andøya Spaceport is centrepiece in the Technology Safeguards Agreement signed by US and Norwegian authorities. The government in Oslo
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Americans close the door to Russia’s biggest lithium mine
The Polar Lithium project in the Kola Peninsula is included in the new US sanctions list. The Kolmozero lithium resources
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Paralysis looms over Russia’s Arctic oil
New US sanctions deal an unprecedented blow to the companies that over the past decade have developed major oil and
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Shipping on Northern Sea Route lags far behind plans
For years, Vladimir Putin has insisted that annual shipments on the far northern route should reach 80 million tons by
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Sanctioned shadow fleet gas carrier zigzags between Norwegian oil platforms
For more than a week, the 236 meter long LNG carrier has been sailing back-and-forth in the North Sea. On
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After a month in Norwegian fjord, infamous Russian reefer Belomorye is towed to sea
The almost 50 year old reefer was early the 31 December towed out of the Frei Fjord and into stormy
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Murmansk power plant discharges black smoke, covering city center for hours
As temperatures in the far northern Russian city this week dropped below minus 20, local authorities were struggling to keep
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Chinese rig finds oil in Barents Sea
The Cosl Prospector discovered up to 52 million barrels of oil in an appraisal well in Norwegian Arctic waters. The
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Lights are turned off in Belokamenka in Arctic Russia
Novatek’s LNG construction center outside Murmansk is left in the dark as contractors and subcontractors abandon the plant. There used
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Oslo and Moscow safeguard fishery cooperation
Fifty years of fishery cooperation in the Barents Sea could collapse if Norway closes all its seaports for Russian fishermen,
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Russian Warships from Northern Fleet Showcase Support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
Two frigates that normally are based in the far northern Kola Peninsula this week fired hypersonic Tsirkon missiles in the
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Beijing and Moscow tune in for more Arctic shipping
Only few days after a Chinese bulk carrier destroyed two cables in the Baltic Sea in what appears as an
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