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New radars sharpen Russian air defense over northern Finland, Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2025 at 11:31
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For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is

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Kola, Karelia soldiers likely to increase from 30,000 to 80,000

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:03
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Thousands of soldiers from the three brigades inside the Arctic Circle, near the border with NATO, are killed or wounded

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

Floating nuclear power plant completes first fuel cycle

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 at 10:50
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Both reactors on the Akademik Lomonosov have reloaded the uranium fuel elements for the first time since the floating nuclear power plant

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Tu-95MS bombers from Arctic Russia launched in Ukraine attack

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 10:01
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Tu-95MS bombers from Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region are Wednesday launching a large-scale attack with cruise missiles against Ukraine.

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

Paralysis looms over Russia’s Arctic oil

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 12:52
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New US sanctions deal an unprecedented blow to the companies that over the past decade have developed major oil and

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Shipping traffic went down along the Northern Sea Route this year, after four years of increases. (Vladimir Chistyakov/Associated Press)
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Shipping on Northern Sea Route lags far behind plans

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 10, 2025 at 10:45
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For years, Vladimir Putin has insisted that annual shipments on the far northern route should reach 80 million tons by

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Kremlin, on Trump remarks on Greenland and Canada, says Russia has Arctic interests

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 11:52
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The Kremlin on Thursday said that Russia had strategic national interests in the Arctic when asked to comment on U.S.

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Upgraded nuclear missile sub conducts tests in icy waters

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 14:59
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After more than six years of upgrades, the old Bryansk will soon be sailing deterrence patrols in the northeast Barents Sea and

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Northern Fleet gives priority to faraway voyages

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 6, 2025 at 09:29
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A key part of combat training for the Russian navy’s new frigates in 2025 will be long-distance sailings. In Severomorsk,

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Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Geopolitics (Russia) 

20 percent decline in border traffic YoY

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 09:26
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There were 57,986 crossings at Storskog in 2024, down 20% on a year-over-year (YoY) basis from the 72,173 in 2023,

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After a month in Norwegian fjord, infamous Russian reefer Belomorye is towed to sea

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 10:49
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The almost 50 year old reefer was early the 31 December towed out of the Frei Fjord and into stormy

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Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) Politics Politics (Russia) 

Here comes Yakutia, Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 30, 2024 at 12:31
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The flag-raising ceremony happened at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg on December 28. It took four and a half

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Featured • Zone 3 Science Society (Russia) 

Young mammoth remains discovered in Siberian permafrost after roughly 50,000 years

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 09:50
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Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after

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

Two dead, 27 injured in Murmansk train collision

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 15:59
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Four passenger coaches derailed and one flipped over after the two trains collided sideways on the tracks at the station

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

Massive explosions near Severomorsk, in Arctic Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 11:33
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There is no information made public that can tell what exploded inside the military boundaries south of the headquarters of

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