Sanctions are biting on Russian icebreaker builders
Companies Nornickel and Rosneft have scrapped plans for the building of high-tech icebreakers fuelled by LNG. The vessels will instead
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Major fire at Russia’s largest nickel electrolysis workshop
Black acrid smoke is drifting for several kilometers in Monchegorsk Wednesday morning caused by the fire at Nornickel’s factory. The
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Murmansk to get sanctions-free shopping flight to Minsk
Belarus is becoming a popular vacation destination for people from the Russian north as sanctions limit the possibilities to travel
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Gazprom’s new major Arctic project might be a dead end
On the coast of the Kara Sea, construction workers are in full swing with the building of the Kharasavey natural
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Construction of second Arctic floating nuclear power plant started
Three years after “Akademik Lomonosov” started to produce electricity for the remote Siberian community of Pevek, the first of four
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Russia must shift towards the East, says Minister of the Arctic
“We should not only get new partners, but undertake a paradigm shift,” says Aleksei Chekunkov. Natural resources from the Arctic
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Chinese shippers shun Russian Arctic waters
For the first time in several years, China’s state shipping company COSCO is not not sailing on the Northern Sea
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Amid war, sanctions, Moscow says Russian Arctic shipping will thrive
A new government plan for the Northern Sea Route includes unprecedented investments in new ships, infrastructure and natural resource development.
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Turkish companies to help rescue LNG project in Arctic Russia
Big western companies are pulling out of Novatek’s grand Arctic LNG 2 project. Turkish companies, among them Karpowership, appear ready
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Deep crisis looms, but here comes Russia’s biggest ever Arctic oil project
The state company managed by Putin’s long-time ally Igor Sechin has spud the first wells and started construction of oil
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Russia taking over ownership stakes in Arctic oil field
Russia announced further moves Tuesday to take over foreign ownership stakes in energy projects, saying it would acquire the stock
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Nuclear subs sailing to St. Petersburg surfaced northwest of Haakonsvern naval base
While Norwegian officials are reluctant to give details, the British Royal Navy now tells how they shadowed the two Russian
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No foreign companions as Gazprom prepares well drilling in Arctic waters
The semisubmersible rig on the 17th of July set out from Murmansk with course for one of Gazprom’s remote Arctic
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First Baltic Sea voyage for Russia’s 4th generation multi-purpose sub
Last autumn, the “Severodvinsk” test launched the submarine version of Russia’s new hypersonic Tsirkon cruise missile in the Barents Sea.
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Nickel-tycoon Vladimir Potanin has big plan for Arctic hub Dudinka
A significant expansion of capacities is underway in the far northern port town of Dudinka as shipping on the northern
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