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Russian cruiser fires artillery few kilometres from border to Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:14
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The 186 meter long warship Marshal Ustinov is shooting artillery on targets at the Rybachii Peninsula as part of an ongoing exercise.

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A file photo of liquefied natural gas reservoirs in the port of Sabetta on the Kara Sea shore line on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic circle, some 2500 km of Moscow.
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Russia sees stable oil exports and booming gas business by 2050

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 10:38
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Russia, the world’s second biggest oil exporter and the second largest natural gas producer, sees stable crude production and significant

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Arctic sea ice hits record low March, raising concerns for summer extent

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, April 7, 2025 at 15:47
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The Arctic’s winter ice extent reached its lowest recorded level in March since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russia’s first icebreaking patrol vessel for the Arctic arrives north

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 11:11
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The Ivan Papanin will over the next three months undergo ice tests in the waters around Franz Josef Land.  Built at the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics (Russia) Russia Society 

Russia launches new hypersonic-weapon submarine

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 28, 2025 at 12:25
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The brand new submarine was floated out of the yard’s dock hall on Thursday. Russia is now half-way in launching

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Putin says Arctic rivalries increasing, but economic cooperation still possible

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:45
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Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including from the West,

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Russia 

Russia sees scope for international investors in Arctic

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 11:42
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Russia sees scope for international investors, including from the Global South, to help develop its Arctic region, a senior official

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Frigate in Barents Sea is manned by sailors with battle experience from Ukraine

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 14:59
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Servicemen on board the Admiral Kasatonov successfully applied their war experiences during a recent exercise in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet

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Russia accuses Norway of militarizing Svalbard Arctic islands

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 13:58
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Russia accused Norway of militarizing the Svalbard archipelago and said on Friday it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Moscow

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Putin’s dealmaker with Trump calls for joint action in the Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:52
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“The Arctic is too important for Cold War-style politics,” says Kirill Dmitriev, the influential businessman and government official that plays

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Russia Society Society (Russia) 

By 2031, the population of the Murmansk region may decrease by 45 thousand

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:14 — Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:16
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By Denis Zagore According to data published by Murmanskstat, last year the region’s population decreased by 5.5 thousand people. The population

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Society Society (Russia) 

A generation of reindeer herders is perishing in the war

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 15:32
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The governor of the Yamal-Nenets region in mid-January landed with his helicopter in the southern edge of the vast Yamal

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Russia 

Atlantification ushering in new era of sea ice loss in the Siberian Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, February 24, 2025 at 15:44 — Last Updated: Monday, February 24, 2025 at 16:03
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Warm Atlantic waters are rapidly reshaping the Siberian Arctic, sparking an era of unprecedented sea ice loss—something that will have

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Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 

In Murmansk Port works a fleet of Norwegian reefer vessels

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2025 at 14:00
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“Fish can be traded with the Russians, it has been decided by Norwegian and European authorities,” says Tormod Fossmark, CEO

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General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russia withdraws accreditation of Norwegian honorary consul Andrei Shalyov

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:27
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry in Moscow has withdrawn the exequatur and accreditation of Arkhangelsk citizen Andrei Shalyov. The move comes amid

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