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Tighter sanctions target Nornickel as pressure mounts

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 14:59
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More than ten companies associated with the Russian mining and metallurgy giant are included in the U.S list of sanctions.

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Pilots fear fuel shortages amid sudden airspace closures in Russia’s North

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 11:00
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Drone attacks north to the Kola Peninsula have several times in the last few weeks caused aviation authorities to shut

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Murmansk region of Arctic Russia targeted in drone attack

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 11:54
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Several drones have attacked targets in the far northern Russian region. Videos show a drone that reportedly fly over Vysokii, a

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Doomed Arctic LNG platform arrives in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 19, 2024 at 11:08
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After three weeks of towing across rough Arctic waters, the 640,000 ton heavy production platform arrives in the remote port

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Town of submariners honours killed occupants

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2024 at 13:52
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A monument is erected in the north Russian navy base of Polyarny for local men killed in Ukraine. Construction works

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Sister ships of NewNew Polar Bear headed for Europe

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 13:18 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 13:25
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Authorities in Beijing admit that the container carrier in 2023 damaged the Balticconnector pipeline in the Gulf of Finland. At

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Kola wildfire smoke drift into Nordic neighbours

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 13:10
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Fires on dry peat bogs at several locations west of Murmansk on Russia’s Barents Sea coast continue to send smoke

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BLOG: Long forgotten, these Soviet satellites once linked the Arctic to Moscow

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, August 12, 2024 at 16:16 — Last Updated: Monday, August 12, 2024 at 16:23
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Recently, I wrote about the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, which will provide high-speed internet to military and government customers across

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Explosion at the Usinsk oil processing plant in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 15:47
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The reason for the explosion at the Usinsk oil processing plant is “not yet clear,” representatives of local Russian authorities

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Dense sea ice in the High Arctic could threaten shipping

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 16:08
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By Elizaveta Vereykina There are major volumes of sea-ice in Russian east Arctic waters and oil tankers could have difficulty

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Russia prisoner swap includes Tromsø university attendee Mikushin

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2024 at 10:29 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2024 at 10:32
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The prisoner exchange between the West and Russia includes Mikhail Mikushin, the GRU affiliated charged with espionage in Norway. He

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Moscow’s Arctic policy is corrupt and based on lies says exiled energy expert

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 15:54
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Mikhail Krutikhin argues that several of the major industrial projects currently under development in the Russian Arctic are nothing but

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Russian navy starts major drills involving most of its fleet

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 16:04
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly Russia’s navy began planned exercises involving most of its fleet in the Arctic and

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55 Russian indigenous, regional and ethno groups labeled as extremists

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 10:35
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“The repressive machine is gathering momentum. The methods of persecution against indigenous rights activists are intensifying,” says the International committee

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Drone strikes Russian bomber at Arctic airfield: Ukrainian defense ministry

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2024 at 10:11
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Russia’s war against Ukraine has for the first time hit back on the Arctic. A Tu-22M3 bomber at the Olenya

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