Confrontation is unfolding in the Arctic, says Russian Navy Commander
The Arctic has moved from cooperation and interaction to the opposite, a region of possible future conflict, said Russia’s navy
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Lights are turned off in Belokamenka in Arctic Russia
Novatek’s LNG construction center outside Murmansk is left in the dark as contractors and subcontractors abandon the plant. There used
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Russian Warships from Northern Fleet Showcase Support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
Two frigates that normally are based in the far northern Kola Peninsula this week fired hypersonic Tsirkon missiles in the
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Last batch of radioactive uranium fuel removed from military town in Arctic Russia
Removing the spent nuclear fuel elements from the Alfa-class submarine reactors in Gremikha became some of the most challenging operations
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Beijing and Moscow tune in for more Arctic shipping
Only few days after a Chinese bulk carrier destroyed two cables in the Baltic Sea in what appears as an
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UK targets oil tankers in bid to strike Kremlin’s war machine
Several of the 30 tankers that this week were added to London’s sanction list have shipped Russian oil across the
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Sea-ice caused trouble for Russian warships
Russia is developing a fleet of naval icebreakers. But none of them took part in the Northern Fleet’s expedition that
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Russia faces unprecedented heat as global warming shifts air currents nationwide
By Elizaveta Vereykina Russia’s main meteorological service reports about unusually high temperatures across the country. “Temperatures are very high all over
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35,000-year-old sabre-toothed kitten found preserved in Arctic Russia
A sabre-toothed kitten more than 35,000 years old has been found preserved in the Siberian permafrost, with the scientists behind
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Western sanctions hinder modernisation of Russia’s largest warship
Modernisation of the nuclear-powered battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is far behind schedule as Russia itself need to produce auxiliary systems. Work has
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Russia to scrap multilateral nuclear environmental agreement
The Russian Government intends withdraw from the landmark agreement with the European Union and Norway that since 2003 has paved
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Russia says it has no illusions about Trump, will robustly defend its interests
By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Antonov The Kremlin reacted cautiously on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected U.S.
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New frigate Admiral Golovko sets out from Severomorsk on ‘world tour’
It is the first long-range voyage of the naval vessel that was handed over to the Northern Fleet one year
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Construction begins on a “new flagship of Russian polar research”
By Elizaveta Vereykina On 29 October, an official ceremony was held at the Admiralty shipyards in St Petersburg to start the
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Chinese heavy lift ship without ice-class battles on freezing Arctic route
Sea-ice is quickly expanding across the region as 154 meter long carrier Ocean 28 makes it across the Northern Sea
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