Russia and India talk oil and Arctic
The huge Vostok Oil project was key issue of discussion when Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural gas Shri Hardeep
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Reindeer calves found dead for second year in a row on river in Arctic Russia
Poaching and climate change might be the reasons why more than 1,200 migrating animals did not make it across the
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New coal terminal project underway in Arctic Russia
A major infrastructure project is unfolding on the remote coast of the Kara Sea. A significant number of excavators, bulldozers
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Rosneft surveys oil potential in eastern Arctic waters of Russia
Several survey vessels are mapping the petroleum potential of the Laptev Sea and a drillship is on its way to
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Russians promote methanol plant to Chinese energy investors
The developers of the far northern Indiga project are courting Chinese investors. The plans to build a methanol plant on
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Big oil, gas and coal making headway on Russian Arctic coast
Hundreds of ships loaded with construction materials shuttle to the sites of new nonrenewable energy projects. Over the past year,
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Russian nuclear-powered cargo ship returns to Arctic after troublesome year
The nuclear-powered cargo ship crossed the Arctic Circle at 66°34’N early Tuesday morning Currently steaming north along Norway’s northern coast,
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Perfectly preserved cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost
‘Sparta’ was probably 1 or 2 months old when she died 28,000 years ago Scientists have unveiled an extraordinary find
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Murmansk boosts exports to $4.7 billion, only 3% goes to neighbouring Norway
The Russian Arctic region has almost doubled its exports over the past five years. It is the powerful mineral and
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Northern Sea Route developer wants Putin to approve Arctic container shipping plan
“There is a huge interest in the international business community,” Chief of Rosatom Aleksei Likhachev tells the President. “With your
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Production of Arctic fiber-optic cable starts in Murmansk
Six pairs of fiber-optic cables with a bandwidth of up to 104 Tb/s will be laid on the seafloor along
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Extreme fire activity continues in Yakutia, Russia
High temperatures, lack of rainfall and drier-than-average soil are among the factors that may have contributed to the increasing number
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Nornickel expands on Northern Sea Route
The company intends to build several icebreakers and invest 26 billion rubles in its Dudinka seaport. The world’s leading producer
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Moscow plans for 2,000 per cent growth of trans-Arctic shipping over 10 years
The Russian government intends to boost annual transit volumes on the Northern Sea Route from 1,3 million tons in 2020
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COVID-19 cases up 200% in Murmansk, Russia
About 260 new cases with COVID-19 are detected daily over the last week in Murmansk region, three times more than
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