Ten percent of population on Russia’s Kola Peninsula has been infected with COVID-19
Murmansk region on Monday reached the mark of 70,000 cases as the number of new infections remains high. 143 new
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Novatek’s new Arctic license areas located in protected nature reserve
The natural gas company was awarded the controversial licenses after it sent a letter to the Kremlin. Company leader Leonid
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Russian minister of emergency situations dies during Arctic exercise
Yevgeny Zinichev lost his life when leading the biggest rescue and emergency exercise ever held in the Russian Far North.
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Russia drills rescue and emergency response in Arctic exercise
About 6,000 personnel are engaged in one of Russia’s biggest ever rescue and emergency exercises in the Arctic. The exercise
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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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