Slow progress, huge budget overrun for Rosatomflot’s lider-class icebreaker
Sluggish progress and massive budget overrun have characterised the four years that have past since Rosatomflot gave go-ahead for the
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Russia signs MoU with Chinese navy
No deal on joint Arctic navy exercises, but Russia and China agree on search and rescue cooperation on the world’s
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Men from north Russian navy towns refuse to fight, face jail for desertion
By Atle Staalesen and Olesia Krivtsova Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the military court in Zaozersk,
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Expert fears flooded radioactive dump sites could leak to river system that flows into Arctic Ocean
Floodwaters in Tomsk region threatens to submerge the river banks in Seversk where highly radioactive liquid waste from the Soviet
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Submariners from Russia’s Northern Fleet fight and fall in Ukraine
A significant number of sailors from the naval base towns in the Kola Peninsula are killed in Russia’s war of
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Novatek could get a discount for pumping gas in Russia’s Far North
By Elizaveta Vereykina, The Independent Barents Observer This is a way of paying for the construction of the pipeline in
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New low for the people of Pechenga
The population of the far northern Russian border municipality once counted almost 60,000. By January 2024, the number had dropped
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Russia’s Novatek may scale back Arctic LNG 2, focus on Murmansk
Russia’s Novatek is being forced to scale back its huge Arctic LNG 2 project after Western sanctions curbed its access
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Russia says it will start direct tourist voyages to Svalbard
Ildar Neverov, the leader of state-owned company Arktikugol, made the announcement about a direct sea route from mainland Russia to
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Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 suspends gas liquefaction amid sanctions, lack of tankers
By Marwa Rashad and Vladimir Soldatkin Novatek, Russia’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), has suspended production at its
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Russia starts Friday with large-scale air attack on Ukraine, Tu-95 bombers from Murmansk active
Strategic bombers from Olenya airbase strike targets across Ukraine Friday morning in yet another massive terror attack against civilians and
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Moscow plans extractive industry boom and thousands of jobs for Arctic town of Dikson
A fancy document presented by a group of consultancy companies outlines billions of rubles of investments in upgraded infrastructure and
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Airplane ticket prices in Russia are up 40%
By Elizaveta Vereykina The cost of flying to the Arctic city of Murmansk has risen up to 76%. In February
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Norwegian border town finally scraps cooperation agreement with Russian neighbor
Wednesday, the municipal council of Sør-Varanger, where Kirkenes is the town center, ended its friendship agreement with next-door Pechenga Rayon.
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Russian Northern fleet is training for a drone attack on Severomorsk naval base
In an exercise held in the Northern Fleet headquarters city this week, military engineers, medics and representatives of radiation, chemical
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